Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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

Epictetus

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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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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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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.

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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Saying, Zen

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Wilde, Oscar

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