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

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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

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

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Mark Twain

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

Buckle, George Earle

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I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

Bethania McKenstry

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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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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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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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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.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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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

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Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Victoria, Queen

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In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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