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

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Byron, Lord

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

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

Mark Twain

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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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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

21.

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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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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It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Navon, Yitzhak

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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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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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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

35.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Saying, Zen

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Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

39.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

George Bush

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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