Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Opinions

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Twain, Mark

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

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Mark Twain

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Virginia Woolf

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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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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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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

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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 don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Byron, Lord

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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.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

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

Victoria, Queen