Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Brown, Les

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

Twain, Mark

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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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 foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion.

Arendt, Hannah

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Epictetus

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Needham, Richard J.

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

Souter, David H.

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

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

Saying, Zen

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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.