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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

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

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

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Saying, Zen

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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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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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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Byron, Lord

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Mark Twain

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Souter, David H.

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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 is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Senator Patrick Leahy