Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

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

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

Basinger, Kim

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Pope, Alexander

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Rogers, Will

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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Charles A. Dana

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

21.

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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Souter, David H.

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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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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

32.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Rogers, Will

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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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 get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Saying, Zen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.