Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Turgenev, Ivan

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Renan, Ernest

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Mark Twain

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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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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Antonius, Marcus

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

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Brown, Les

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Blake, William

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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.