Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Turgenev, Ivan

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Byron, Lord

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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

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Buckle, George Earle

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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