Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Buckle, George Earle

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

George Bush

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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.

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

Klopstock

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

Russell, Bertrand

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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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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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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

Rogers, Will

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

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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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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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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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It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Mark Twain

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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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