Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

- Plato

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

Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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.

Batcheller, Irving

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Blake, William

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

Saying, Zen

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

Twain, Mark

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

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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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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 foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?

Byron, Lord

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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

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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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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