Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Saying, Zen

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Rogers, Will

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

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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

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

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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 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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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Buckle, George Earle

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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Twain, Mark

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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

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

Saying, Zen

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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Byron, Lord

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren