Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Virginia Woolf

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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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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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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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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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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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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 public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Rogers, Will

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Brooks, Phillips

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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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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Byron, Lord

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Mark Twain

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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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.