Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Epictetus

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Phillips, Wendell

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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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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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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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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mark Twain

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Virginia Woolf

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett