Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Epictetus

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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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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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

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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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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 agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Turgenev, Ivan

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Blake, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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