Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Epictetus

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Mark Twain

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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.

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

Rogers, Will

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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

Blake, William

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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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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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I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Saying, Zen

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato