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

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

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

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Twain, Mark

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

Epictetus

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Renan, Ernest

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 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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Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.

Batcheller, Irving

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

Mark Twain

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Pope, Alexander

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

25.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

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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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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion.

Arendt, Hannah

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Souter, David H.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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

Turgenev, Ivan