Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Opinions

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

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

Byron, Lord

Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Twain, Mark

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