Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Renan, Ernest

Best Quotes about Opinions

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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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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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Saying, Zen

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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

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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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.

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Byron, Lord

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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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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It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Platiere, Jeane

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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 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