Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

- Virginia Woolf

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Batcheller, Irving

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Twain, Mark

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Renan, Ernest

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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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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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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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Pope, Alexander

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Saying, Zen

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

George Bush

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Brown, Les

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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell

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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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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

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

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

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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo