Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

Bethania McKenstry

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

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

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Mark Twain

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Blake, William

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Mark Twain

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Pope, Alexander

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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius