Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Opinions

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Basinger, Kim

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

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

Epictetus

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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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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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 want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Blake, William

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Dyer, Wayne

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