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

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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

Rogers, Will

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell

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

Pope, Alexander

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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Twain, Mark

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Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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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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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