Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Basinger, Kim

Best Quotes about Opinions

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Klopstock

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rogers, Will

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

Twain, Mark

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

Basinger, Kim

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

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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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In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Mark Twain

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

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

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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