Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

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Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Epictetus

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

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Mark Twain

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Basinger, Kim

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Saying, Zen

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

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Peter, Laurence J.

44.

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

45.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Souter, David H.