Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Basinger, Kim

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

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Souter, David H.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Victoria, Queen

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Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

Saying, Zen

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Brown, Les

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

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.

Needham, Richard J.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Batcheller, Irving

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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