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.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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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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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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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 be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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

Virginia Woolf

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

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

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

Byron, Lord

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There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Saying, Zen

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Brown, Les

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