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

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

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion.

Arendt, Hannah

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Victoria, Queen

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

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

Blake, William

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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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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Saying, Zen

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Mark Twain

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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 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 care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato

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

Brown, Les

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

Wilde, Oscar