Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Batcheller, Irving

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Saying, Zen

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Byron, Lord

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

Blake, William

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Basinger, Kim

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

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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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Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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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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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo