Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Peter, Laurence J.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Rogers, Will

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

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

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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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People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the

Proverb, Spanish

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

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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

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

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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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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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He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

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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

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Epictetus

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Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

Saying, Zen

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

Brown, Les

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Byron, Lord

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

George Bush

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Batcheller, Irving

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.