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

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Basinger, Kim

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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Chuang Tzu

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Dyer, Wayne

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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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

Byron, Lord

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

Pope, Alexander

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Mark Twain

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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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Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Saying, Zen

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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Brown, Les

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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