Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Turgenev, Ivan

Alexander Hamilton

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Saying, Zen

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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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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

21.

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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Rogers, Will

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Byron, Lord

29.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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

George Bush

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Chapman, John Jay