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

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Benjamin, Walter

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, William

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Charles A. Dana

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Rogers, Will

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

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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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 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

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

Mark Twain

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

Batcheller, Irving

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Brown, Les

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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.