Motivational Quotes

Opinions

What you think of me is none of my business.

- Cole-Whittaker, Terry

Best Quotes about Opinions

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Buckle, George Earle

10.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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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 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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It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

George Bush

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

23.

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Phillips, Wendell

33.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Saying, Zen

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

Rogers, Will

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Renan, Ernest

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

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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