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

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

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

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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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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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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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

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Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mark Twain

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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

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Saying, Zen

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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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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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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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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

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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.