Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Byron, Lord

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

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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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Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

Saying, Zen

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

Mark Twain

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Blake, William

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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 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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Senator Patrick Leahy