Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Saying, Zen

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

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

Pope, Alexander

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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

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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Mark Twain

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Rogers, Will

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Saying, Zen

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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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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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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 public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Roosevelt, Theodore

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