Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Opinions

There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Twain, Mark

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

Phillips, Wendell

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.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Churchill, Winston

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Rogers, Will

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

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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 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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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.

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

Mark Twain

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Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.

Batcheller, Irving

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Byron, Lord

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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