Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

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

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Saying, Zen

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

George Bush

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

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

Chapman, John Jay

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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 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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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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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Epictetus

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