Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rogers, Will

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Souter, David H.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Rogers, Will

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

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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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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Blake, William

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

Platiere, Jeane

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

George Bush

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

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

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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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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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Brooks, Phillips

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

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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