Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Platiere, Jeane

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Byron, Lord

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

Saying, Zen

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Needham, Richard J.

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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