Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

- Tarkington, Booth

Best Quotes about Opinions

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.

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

Batcheller, Irving

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 always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Saying, Zen

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

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Epictetus

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

Rogers, Will

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

34.

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

Souter, David H.

35.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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The average man's opinions are generally of more value to himself than to anyone else.

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

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Brown, Les