Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Souter, David H.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Rogers, Will

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

Brown, Les

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Twain, Mark

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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 foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Mark Twain

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Saying, Zen

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Blake, William

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?

Byron, Lord

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

Schwab, Charles M.