Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Gilbert, W. S.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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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.

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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

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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

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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.