Motivational Quotes

Opinions

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

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.

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

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

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

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Antonius, Marcus

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Pope, Alexander

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Souter, David H.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Brown, Les

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Epictetus