Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Rostand, Jean

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Rogers, Will

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Pope, Alexander

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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 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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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Blake, William

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

Souter, David H.

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Mark Twain

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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.