Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Souter, David H.

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Byron, Lord

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.