Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Souter, David H.

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

Elbert Hubbard

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Basinger, Kim

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.

Keats, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

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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.

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

Mark Twain

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Victoria, Queen

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It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Ayn Rand

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Blake, William

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

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

Platiere, Jeane

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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.