Motivational Quotes

Opinions

It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Opinions

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.

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Batcheller, Irving

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

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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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.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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

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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

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

Saying, Zen

17.

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

Byron, Lord

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

George Bush

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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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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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