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

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

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

George Bush

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

Saying, Zen

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Mark Twain

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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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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

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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 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

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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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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Twain, Mark