Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Epictetus

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

Rogers, Will

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Turgenev, Ivan

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Mark Twain

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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Brown, Les

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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'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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel