Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Turgenev, Ivan

Best Quotes about Opinions

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.

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Byron, Lord

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

George Bush

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

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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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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Chuang Tzu

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Renan, Ernest

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

Mark Twain

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Epictetus

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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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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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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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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

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

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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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 who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.