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

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

Antonius, Marcus

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.

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Saying, Zen

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My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You're entitled to your own opinions. Your are not entitled to your own facts.

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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 foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

George Bush

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

Blake, William

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Brown, Les

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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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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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

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Byron, Lord

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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion.

Arendt, Hannah

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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