Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Mark Twain

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

The average man's opinions are generally of more value to himself than to anyone else.

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Keynes, John Maynard

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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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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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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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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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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

Twain, Mark

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.

Batcheller, Irving

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

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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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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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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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I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

George Bush

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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