Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- George Bush

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saying, Zen

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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.

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

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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

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

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

Blake, William

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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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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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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Brown, Les

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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