Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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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Best Quotes about Opinions

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Benjamin, Walter

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

George Bush

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

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Epictetus

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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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 unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Needham, Richard J.

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

Renan, Ernest

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Saying, Zen

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.