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

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Twain, Mark

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

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rogers, Will

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

Pope, Alexander

12.

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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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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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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Mark Twain

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

Byron, Lord

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

40.

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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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.

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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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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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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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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 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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Antonius, Marcus

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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel