Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Opinions

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rogers, Will

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

Charles A. Dana

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

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

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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

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Twain, Mark

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Navon, Yitzhak