Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Turgenev, Ivan

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Souter, David H.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Rogers, Will

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Byron, Lord

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.

Keats, John

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Twain, Mark

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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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

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

Virginia Woolf

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.