Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Epictetus

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Klopstock

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

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

Mark Twain

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

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

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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

Buckle, George Earle

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

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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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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

Alexander Hamilton

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Navon, Yitzhak