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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Souter, David H.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

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

Keynes, John Maynard

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Rostand, Jean

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

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

Brown, Les

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Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Rogers, Will

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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Virginia Woolf

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Mark Twain

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

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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Blake, William