Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Opinions

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Rogers, Will

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Mark Twain

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rogers, Will

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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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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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Buckle, George Earle

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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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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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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 public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Basinger, Kim

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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

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

Mark Twain

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Saying, Zen

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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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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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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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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.