Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Schwab, Charles M.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Byron, Lord

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Brown, Les

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

Saying, Zen

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mark Twain

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Rogers, Will

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

George Bush

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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