Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Twain, Mark

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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Rogers, Will

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Peter, Laurence 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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Pope, Alexander

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

Rogers, Will

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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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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Brown, Les

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Saying, Zen

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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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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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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Phillips, Wendell