Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Platiere, Jeane

Best Quotes about Opinions

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

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.

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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Rogers, Will

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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 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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Saying, Zen

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Blake, William

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.