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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Epictetus

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Edwards, Tryon

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Needham, Richard J.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

Alexander Hamilton

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There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Saying, Zen

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

19.

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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.

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Mark Twain

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

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Brown, Les

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

Blake, William

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Souter, David H.

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