Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Brown, Les

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

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

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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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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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

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Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

Saying, Zen

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

Mark Twain

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Platiere, Jeane

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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 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