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

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

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

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Mark Twain

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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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

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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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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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If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be?

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People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the

Proverb, Spanish

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

Epictetus

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It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Saying, Zen

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

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Platiere, Jeane

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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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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Renan, Ernest