Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Mark Twain

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Epictetus

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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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 a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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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.

28.

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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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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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 difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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

Byron, Lord

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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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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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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Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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