Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Turgenev, Ivan

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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

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

Souter, David H.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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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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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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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Mark Twain

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

Pope, Alexander

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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Brown, Les

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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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 opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Renan, Ernest

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Virginia Woolf

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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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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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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg