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

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

Blake, William

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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

Rogers, Will

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Saying, Zen

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Byron, Lord

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Brown, Les

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

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Churchill, Winston

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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