Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Saying, Zen

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Victoria, Queen

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

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

George Bush

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Rogers, Will

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

Epictetus

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Souter, David H.

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

Byron, Lord

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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