Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Schwab, Charles M.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Turgenev, Ivan

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, William

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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Epictetus

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Saying, Zen

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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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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

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

Mark Twain

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton