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

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Peter, Laurence J.

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Renan, Ernest

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Antonius, Marcus

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

Charles A. Dana

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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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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 conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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