Motivational Quotes

Opinions

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

- Gilbert, W. S.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Rostand, Jean

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

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

George Bush

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Saying, Zen

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It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mark Twain

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Twain, Mark

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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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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard