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

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

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

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

Virginia Woolf

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

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Epictetus

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

Rogers, Will

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It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion.

Monica Fairview

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Brown, Les

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

Saying, Zen

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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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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