Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

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

Charles A. Dana

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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.

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

Byron, Lord

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

George Bush

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

Mark Twain

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

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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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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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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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be?

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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