Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Antonius, Marcus

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

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Churchill, Winston

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Mark Twain

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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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I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Saying, Zen

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Byron, Lord

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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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

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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