Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Navon, Yitzhak

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Batcheller, Irving

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Needham, Richard J.

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Brown, Les

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

24.

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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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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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I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Pope, Alexander

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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 takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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