Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Virginia Woolf

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Turgenev, Ivan

When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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 takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

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The average man's opinions are generally of more value to himself than to anyone else.

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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 is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mark Twain

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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 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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Lebowitz, Fran