Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Peter, Laurence J.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Navon, Yitzhak

When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

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

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

Epictetus

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rogers, Will

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Brown, Les

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Byron, Lord

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