Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

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

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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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

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

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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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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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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

Alexander Hamilton

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Rogers, Will

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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