Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

- Tarkington, Booth

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Twain, Mark

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

George Bush

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

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

Byron, Lord

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Mark Twain

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Victoria, Queen

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Rogers, Will

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

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Brown, Les

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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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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 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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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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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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