Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Opinions

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Saying, Zen

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

Souter, David H.

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

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Turgenev, Ivan

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

13.

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Virginia Woolf

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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Brooks, Phillips

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Mark Twain

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Mark Twain

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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