Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Churchill, Winston

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

The average man's opinions are generally of more value to himself than to anyone else.

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

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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 foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Saying, Zen

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Renan, Ernest

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People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the

Proverb, Spanish

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Virginia Woolf

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Rogers, Will

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

Souter, David H.