Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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 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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Rogers, Will

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Mark Twain

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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.