Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Souter, David H.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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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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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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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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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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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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 public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

George Bush

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

Twain, Mark

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