Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Gilbert, W. S.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

Alexander Hamilton

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

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

Souter, David H.

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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Victoria, Queen

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Phillips, Wendell