Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Schwab, Charles M.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Rogers, Will

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, William

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Twain, Mark

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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 become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Renan, Ernest

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

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Basinger, Kim

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

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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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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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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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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

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

Brown, Les

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Souter, David H.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Batcheller, Irving