Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Griffith-Joyner, Florence

Best Quotes about Opinions

My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Rogers, Will

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mark Twain

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

Twain, Mark

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It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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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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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

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

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I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Saying, Zen

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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