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

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

Souter, David H.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

You're entitled to your own opinions. Your are not entitled to your own facts.

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

Elbert Hubbard

There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Brown, Les

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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.

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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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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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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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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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, William

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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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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.