Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

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

Saying, Zen

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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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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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It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Ayn Rand

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Epictetus

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Rogers, Will

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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Benjamin, Walter

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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 always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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