Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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

George Bush

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

Saying, Zen

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Batcheller, Irving

18.

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Virginia Woolf

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

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

34.

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

Brown, Les

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

Mark Twain

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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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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

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

Charles A. Dana

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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