Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Opinions

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.

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

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

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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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 judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Mark Twain

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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 man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, William

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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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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