Motivational Quotes

Opinions

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

- Duhamel, George

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Virginia Woolf

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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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Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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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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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

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

Epictetus

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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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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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In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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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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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

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

Byron, Lord

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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Mark Twain

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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.