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

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

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

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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

Wilde, Oscar

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Pope, Alexander

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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

Saying, Zen

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

Mark Twain

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Mark Twain

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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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I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Churchill, Winston

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Rogers, Will

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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 have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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