Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be?

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.

Keats, John

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Virginia Woolf

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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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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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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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Twain, Mark

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

Saying, Zen

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Epictetus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Ayn Rand

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Mark Twain

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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 always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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