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

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

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

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Brown, Les

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Saying, Zen

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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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 mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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