Motivational Quotes

Opinions

What you think of me is none of my business.

- Cole-Whittaker, Terry

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Keynes, John Maynard

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Schwab, Charles M.

Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Renan, Ernest

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Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

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Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?

Byron, Lord

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Mark Twain

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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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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

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Virginia Woolf

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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