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

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

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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 best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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

Renan, Ernest

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Basinger, Kim

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

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Blake, William

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Rogers, Will

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Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Souter, David H.

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

Saying, Zen

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg