Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Opinions

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.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Mark Twain

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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 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.

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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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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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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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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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Chuang Tzu

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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Churchill, Winston

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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