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

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

Batcheller, Irving

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

George Bush

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mark Twain

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

10.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Pope, Alexander

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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 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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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 mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

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

Blake, William

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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 a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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