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

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Saying, Zen

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Brown, Les

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

Rogers, Will

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It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion.

Monica Fairview

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Rogers, Will

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Renan, Ernest

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Mark Twain

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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.