Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Blake, William

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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 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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Souter, David H.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Brown, Les

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He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon