Motivational Quotes

Opinions

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Wilde, Oscar

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

Bethania McKenstry

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.

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

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

10.

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

11.

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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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 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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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 is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Ayn Rand

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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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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Saying, Zen

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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