Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Souter, David H.

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Mark Twain

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Brown, Les

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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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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 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