Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Mark Twain

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

Twain, Mark

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Mark Twain

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

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.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

11.

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

26.

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Brown, Les

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

33.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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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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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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