Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Senator Patrick Leahy

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Dyer, Wayne

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Epictetus

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Saying, Zen

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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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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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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