Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Schwab, Charles M.

Best Quotes about Opinions

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Mark Twain

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Rostand, Jean

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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Phillips, Wendell

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Senator Patrick Leahy