Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Phillips, Wendell

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Saying, Zen

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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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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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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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Rogers, Will

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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

Elbert Hubbard

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.