Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Elbert Hubbard

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Platiere, Jeane

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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

Saying, Zen

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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

Brown, Les

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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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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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

32.

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Buckle, George Earle

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