Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Saying, Zen

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Rogers, Will

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

Souter, David H.

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

Pope, Alexander

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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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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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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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

Alexander Hamilton

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

Antonius, Marcus

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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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I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.

Keats, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Renan, Ernest

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

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Blake, William

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

Byron, Lord

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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