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

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

Twain, Mark

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Twain, Mark

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Navon, Yitzhak

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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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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

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

Einstein, Albert

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

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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato

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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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I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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

Saying, Zen

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Buckle, George Earle

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I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.