Motivational Quotes

Opinions

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

- Klopstock

Best Quotes about Opinions

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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 mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

George Bush

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

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

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

Saying, Zen

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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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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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You're entitled to your own opinions. Your are not entitled to your own facts.

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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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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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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Rogers, Will

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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 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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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