Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Opinions

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Brown, Les

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Churchill, Winston

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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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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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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

Pope, Alexander

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

George Bush

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Mark Twain

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He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.