Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Victoria, Queen

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Saying, Zen

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

Byron, Lord

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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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It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Renan, Ernest

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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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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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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Platiere, Jeane

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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