Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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.

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Phillips, Wendell

When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Epictetus

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Saying, Zen

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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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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 always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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 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

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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

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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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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Souter, David H.

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

39.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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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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Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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