Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Turgenev, Ivan

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Souter, David H.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Brown, Les

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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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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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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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

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

George Bush

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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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 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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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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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 difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George