Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Johnson, Samuel

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Lebowitz, Fran

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Renan, Ernest

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

Mill, John Stuart

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The average man's opinions are generally of more value to himself than to anyone else.

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

Brown, Les

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Byron, Lord

39.

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

Batcheller, Irving

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Souter, David H.

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