Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Byron, Lord

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Turgenev, Ivan

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.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Brown, Les

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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

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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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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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