Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Twain, Mark

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, William

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.

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Dyer, Wayne

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Saying, Zen

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It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion.

Monica Fairview

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

Platiere, Jeane

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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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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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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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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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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Byron, Lord

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Twain, Mark

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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