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

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

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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

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.

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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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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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Needham, Richard J.

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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.