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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Turgenev, Ivan

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Antonius, Marcus

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

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

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Saying, Zen

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Byron, Lord

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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Epictetus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Souter, David H.

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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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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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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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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

42.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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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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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 important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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