Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion.

Monica Fairview

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

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

Gilbert, W. S.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Mark Twain

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Charles A. Dana

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

Rogers, Will

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Souter, David H.

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, William

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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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