Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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

Phillips, Wendell

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.

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

Saying, Zen

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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.

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Blake, William

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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 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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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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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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