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

1.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

2.

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

3.

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

Johnson, Samuel

4.

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.

5.

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.

6.

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

Saying, Zen

7.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

8.

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

Elbert Hubbard

9.

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

10.

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

Mark Twain

11.

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

Victoria, Queen

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

16.

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

17.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

18.

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.

19.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

20.

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

Epictetus

21.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

22.

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.

23.

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

Navon, Yitzhak

24.

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

25.

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

Edwards, Tryon

26.

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

Rostand, Jean

27.

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

28.

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

Renan, Ernest

29.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

33.

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

Brown, Les

34.

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

Batcheller, Irving

35.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

36.

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

37.

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

38.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

39.

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

40.

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

41.

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.