Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Opinions

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Souter, David H.

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

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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

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

George Bush

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Twain, Mark

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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 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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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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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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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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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.