Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

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

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

Souter, David H.

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.

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

Byron, Lord

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Brown, Les

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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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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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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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

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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.

32.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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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

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Victoria, Queen