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

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Epictetus

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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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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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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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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Souter, David H.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato

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

Antonius, Marcus

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

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Brown, Les

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.

Keats, John