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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Basinger, Kim

Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

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

Klopstock

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Rostand, Jean

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.

Keats, John

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Pope, Alexander

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg