Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Batcheller, Irving

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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.

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Antonius, Marcus

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Brown, Les

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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 difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Mark Twain

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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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