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 always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

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

Epictetus

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Platiere, Jeane

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Twain, Mark

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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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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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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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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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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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, 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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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

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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

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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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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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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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.