Motivational Quotes

Opinions

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato

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

Charles A. Dana

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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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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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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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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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Schwab, Charles M.

31.

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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mark Twain

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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