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

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

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

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Rogers, Will

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

Blake, William

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

31.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Byron, Lord

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Brown, Les

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.