Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Senator Patrick Leahy

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dyer, Wayne

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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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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He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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

Pope, Alexander

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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 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 don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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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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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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Rostand, Jean