Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Epictetus

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Saying, Zen

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You're entitled to your own opinions. Your are not entitled to your own facts.

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

George Bush

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

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

Mark Twain

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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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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