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

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

Brown, Les

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

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Byron, Lord

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Twain, Mark

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.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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

Epictetus

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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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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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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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Pope, Alexander

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Mark Twain

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Saying, Zen

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

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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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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel