Motivational Quotes

Opinions

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

- Keynes, John Maynard

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Brown, Les

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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 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

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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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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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 study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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

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

Blake, William

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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