Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Pope, Alexander

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

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Benjamin, Walter

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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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 want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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