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

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Souter, David H.

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

Twain, Mark

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.

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

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

Epictetus

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Saying, Zen

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Victoria, Queen

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

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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.

28.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Phillips, Wendell

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You're entitled to your own opinions. Your are not entitled to your own facts.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Dyer, Wayne

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