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

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Renan, Ernest

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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.

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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'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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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 foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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 public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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

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Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Virginia Woolf

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

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

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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