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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Brown, Les

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 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

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

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Rogers, Will

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Blake, William

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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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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