Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Pope, Alexander

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

Byron, Lord

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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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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, William

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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