Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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

Edwards, Tryon

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Schwab, Charles M.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Epictetus

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

Renan, Ernest

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Blake, William

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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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People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the

Proverb, Spanish

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Charles A. Dana

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Antonius, Marcus

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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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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mark Twain

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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.