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

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

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

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

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

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

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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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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 foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Epictetus

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Platiere, Jeane

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.