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

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

Charles A. Dana

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

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Antonius, Marcus

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mark Twain

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Brown, Les

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

Rostand, Jean

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Dyer, Wayne

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