Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Souter, David H.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Byron, Lord

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.

Batcheller, Irving

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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

Phillips, Wendell

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If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be?

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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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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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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.

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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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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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Victoria, Queen

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

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna