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

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

Mark Twain

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the

Proverb, Spanish

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Lebowitz, Fran

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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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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It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Navon, Yitzhak

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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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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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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Blake, William

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Epictetus

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Churchill, Winston

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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