Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

- Madonna

Best Quotes about Opinions

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Souter, David H.

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

Renan, Ernest

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

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Rogers, Will

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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Saying, Zen

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Batcheller, Irving

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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Byron, Lord

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

Epictetus

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry