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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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

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

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

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Saying, Zen

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Brown, Les

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Brooks, Phillips

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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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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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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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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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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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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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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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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Byron, Lord

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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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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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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