Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Public opinion is a second conscience.

- Alger, William R.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Antonius, Marcus

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

George Bush

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Rogers, Will

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Saying, Zen

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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Platiere, Jeane

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry