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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Basinger, Kim

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Virginia Woolf

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Brown, Les

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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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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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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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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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 foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Mark Twain

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

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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

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

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Charles A. Dana