Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Chapman, John Jay

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

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

Pope, Alexander

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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

Saying, Zen

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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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You're entitled to your own opinions. Your are not entitled to your own facts.

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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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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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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Souter, David H.