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

1.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

2.

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

3.

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

4.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

5.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

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

7.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

8.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

9.

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

Navon, Yitzhak

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

Wilde, Oscar

16.

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

17.

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

18.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

19.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

20.

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.

21.

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

Klopstock

22.

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

Blake, William

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

25.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

26.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

27.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

28.

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

Batcheller, Irving

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Russell, Bertrand

32.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

33.

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

Saying, Zen

34.

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

35.

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

36.

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

37.

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

Basinger, Kim

38.

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

Rostand, Jean

39.

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

Victoria, Queen

40.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

41.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

42.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

43.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

44.

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

Epictetus

45.

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

46.

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

George Bush

47.

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

48.

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

49.

Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.