Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Chapman, John Jay

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.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Saying, Zen

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Buckle, George Earle

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My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 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

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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 are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

George Bush

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

Blake, William

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

Mark Twain

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

Alexander Hamilton

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

Pope, Alexander