Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Senator Patrick Leahy

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Byron, Lord

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

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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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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 difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Epictetus

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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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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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You're entitled to your own opinions. Your are not entitled to your own facts.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Saying, Zen

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg