Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Senator Patrick Leahy

Best Quotes about Opinions

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Byron, Lord

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

Souter, David H.

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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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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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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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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Saying, Zen

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

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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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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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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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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Brown, Les

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

George Bush

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Chapman, John Jay

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.