Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Turgenev, Ivan

Best Quotes about Opinions

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mcluhan, Marshall

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

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

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Souter, David H.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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 think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell

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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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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

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

Rostand, Jean

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

George Bush

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Epictetus

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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 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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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.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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