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

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

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

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

Brown, Les

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

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

Saying, Zen

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Rogers, Will

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

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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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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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Byron, Lord

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Epictetus

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

Twain, Mark

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.