Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Blake, William

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

Epictetus

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Virginia Woolf

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

Saying, Zen

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

Mark Twain

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Rogers, Will

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

Byron, Lord

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

33.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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

42.

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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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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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

Inge, Dean William R.

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He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Lebowitz, Fran