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

It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Charles A. Dana

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Klopstock

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Twain, Mark

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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Rogers, Will

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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 not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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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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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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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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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Pope, Alexander

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He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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