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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

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

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

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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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

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

George Bush

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

Byron, Lord

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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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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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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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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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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