Motivational Quotes

Opinions

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

- Webster, Daniel

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Mark Twain

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

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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 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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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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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.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Mark Twain

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna