Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Schwab, Charles M.

Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Buckle, George Earle

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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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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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Mark Twain

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

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

Blake, William

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Byron, Lord

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Klopstock