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

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

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

Platiere, Jeane

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Mark Twain

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

Antonius, Marcus

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

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Byron, Lord

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Brown, Les

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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 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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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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 work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Epictetus

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

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

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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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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth