Motivational Quotes

Opinions

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

- Webster, Daniel

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Saying, Zen

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Renan, Ernest

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

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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Churchill, Winston

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Twain, Mark

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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Byron, Lord

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

Wilde, Oscar