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

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Rogers, Will

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

21.

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

Saying, Zen

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Mark Twain

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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

31.

A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.

32.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Wilde, Oscar

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Souter, David H.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius