Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

George Bush

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

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.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Souter, David H.

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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

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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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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Byron, Lord

33.

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Batcheller, Irving

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Brown, Les

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Rogers, Will

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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

Saying, Zen

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Mark Twain

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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