Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

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

Dyer, Wayne

Einstein, Albert

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Epictetus

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Blake, William

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

30.

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Needham, Richard J.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Brown, Les

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Saying, Zen

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.