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

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

George Bush

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

Pope, Alexander

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.

Batcheller, Irving

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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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My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

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I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Turgenev, Ivan

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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.

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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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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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

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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Rogers, Will

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Basinger, Kim

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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Chuang Tzu

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.