Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Opinions

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Renan, Ernest

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Schwab, Charles M.

You're entitled to your own opinions. Your are not entitled to your own facts.

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

Mill, John Stuart

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, William

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

Twain, Mark

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I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Phillips, Wendell

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Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion.

Monica Fairview

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Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Pope, Alexander

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It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?

Byron, Lord

33.

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Senator Patrick Leahy

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It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Jefferson, Thomas

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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.