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 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

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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

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

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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 feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Byron, Lord

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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

Alexander Hamilton

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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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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Renan, Ernest

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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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