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 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

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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

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

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Brown, Les

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

Twain, Mark

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Blake, William

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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

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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

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

Epictetus

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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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