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

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Maistre, Joseph De

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Baruch, Bernard M.

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Peter, Laurence J.

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

It rarely adds anything to say, In my opinion --not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

Goodman, Paul

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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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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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

Alexander Hamilton

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Byron, Lord

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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Brooks, Phillips

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To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Rostand, Jean

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I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Needham, Richard J.

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Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Brown, Les

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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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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

Mark Twain

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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Churchill, Winston

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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The average man's opinions are generally of more value to himself than to anyone else.

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

Renan, Ernest

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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Phillips, Wendell

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You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato

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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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 held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

Bethania McKenstry

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If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be?

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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Blake, William

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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.