Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Souter, David H.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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

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

Mark Twain

If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be?

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

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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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Renan, Ernest

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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Byron, Lord

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

Epictetus

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Platiere, Jeane

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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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