Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Buckle, George Earle

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Batcheller, Irving

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Blake, William

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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

11.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Platiere, Jeane

24.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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 average man's opinions are generally of more value to himself than to anyone else.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

32.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

34.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

40.

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

Mark Twain

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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

George Bush

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

48.

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

Peter, Laurence J.