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

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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 best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Blake, William

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

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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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Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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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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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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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 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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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Renan, Ernest

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Rogers, Will

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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