Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Klopstock

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

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

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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.

Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

10.

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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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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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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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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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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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

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Brown, Les

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Rogers, Will

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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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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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain