Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Epictetus

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

Rogers, Will

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Blake, William

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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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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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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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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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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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It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Byron, Lord

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

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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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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Renan, Ernest

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

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

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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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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 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.

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

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

Churchill, Winston

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

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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.