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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Blake, William

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

Mark Twain

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

Mark Twain

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

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

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Rogers, Will

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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 want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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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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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

31.

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

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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

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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 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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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 mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Souter, David H.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.