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

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Souter, David H.

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Virginia Woolf

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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Saying, Zen

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Mark Twain

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Blake, William

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

Twain, Mark

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

Byron, Lord

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor