Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Brown, Les

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Brooks, Phillips

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Blake, William

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Mark Twain

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Buckle, George Earle

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

22.

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

23.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

25.

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

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Johnson, Samuel

31.

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

35.

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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Byron, Lord