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

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

Antonius, Marcus

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

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

Charles A. Dana

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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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Brown, Les

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

33.

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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Buckle, George Earle

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.