Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Opinions

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

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

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Byron, Lord

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Renan, Ernest

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Brooks, Phillips

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.