Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Turgenev, Ivan

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Mark Twain

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

George Bush

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?

Byron, Lord

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Souter, David H.

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Virginia Woolf

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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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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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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 unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Brown, Les

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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

Pope, Alexander

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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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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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