Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Best Quotes about Opinions

It rarely adds anything to say, In my opinion --not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

Goodman, Paul

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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.

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.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Brown, Les

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Byron, Lord

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Victoria, Queen

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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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