Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opinions

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 takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Brown, Les

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Platiere, Jeane

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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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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.