Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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

Mark Twain

10.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

11.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Pope, Alexander

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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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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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

Dyer, Wayne

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Mark Twain

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

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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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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

35.

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

Inge, Dean William R.

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