Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Senator Patrick Leahy

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

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

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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.

We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Blake, William

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Mark Twain

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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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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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