Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Blake, William

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

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

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.

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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'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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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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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

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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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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Rostand, Jean

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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 difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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

Byron, Lord

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Basinger, Kim