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

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Epictetus

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Navon, Yitzhak

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

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

Victoria, Queen

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Virginia Woolf

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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