Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Schwab, Charles M.

Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?

Byron, Lord

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

Epictetus

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

Antonius, Marcus

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Keynes, John Maynard

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

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

Dyer, Wayne

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Chuang Tzu

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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Phillips, Wendell

33.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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