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 mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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

Saying, Zen

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

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Epictetus

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

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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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My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

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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, 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

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

Churchill, Winston

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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Mark Twain

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

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Blake, William

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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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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Benjamin, Walter