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

1.

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

2.

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

3.

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Twain, Mark

7.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

8.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

9.

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

Blake, William

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Platiere, Jeane

13.

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

Virginia Woolf

14.

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

Saying, Zen

15.

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

16.

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

17.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

18.

Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

19.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

20.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

25.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

26.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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.

29.

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

Chapman, John Jay

30.

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

Mark Twain

31.

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

Russell, Bertrand

32.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

Pope, Alexander

35.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

36.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

42.

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

Mark Twain

43.

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

Rogers, Will

44.

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

45.

We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

47.

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

Rostand, Jean

48.

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