Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Twain, Mark

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.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Byron, Lord

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Batcheller, Irving

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Charles A. Dana

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

Saying, Zen