Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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.

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

Twain, Mark

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

George Bush

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Byron, Lord

10.

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

Saying, Zen

11.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

12.

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

13.

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

Platiere, Jeane

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

20.

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

25.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

Navon, Yitzhak

29.

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

Wilde, Oscar

30.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

31.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

32.

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

Rogers, Will

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

36.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

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

38.

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

Rogers, Will

39.

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

40.

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

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

43.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

47.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

48.

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

49.

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

Elbert Hubbard

50.

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

Renan, Ernest