Motivational Quotes

Opinions

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Phillips, Wendell

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Rogers, Will

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Souter, David H.

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

George Bush

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

Twain, Mark

39.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

41.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

44.

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

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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

46.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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 used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Needham, Richard J.

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