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

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

Souter, David H.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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.

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

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

11.

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

Saying, Zen

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

Epictetus

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

33.

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Rogers, Will