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

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Batcheller, Irving

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Platiere, Jeane

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Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

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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 difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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 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.