Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Navon, Yitzhak

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Brown, Les

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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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I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Needham, Richard J.

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

Antonius, Marcus

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Rogers, Will

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Souter, David H.