Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Dyer, Wayne

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

George Bush

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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

Einstein, Albert

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It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion.

Monica Fairview

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Saying, Zen

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Brown, Les

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Twain, Mark

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

Epictetus

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Ayn Rand

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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