Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Charles A. Dana

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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 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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Blake, William

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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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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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

Saying, Zen

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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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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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