Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Saying, Zen

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

Mark Twain

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rogers, Will

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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 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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Byron, Lord

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

George Bush

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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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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