Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Navon, Yitzhak

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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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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Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Charles A. Dana

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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Renan, Ernest

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Brown, Les

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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

30.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Twain, Mark

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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.

37.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Virginia Woolf

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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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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 takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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