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

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Rogers, Will

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

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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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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Brown, Les

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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

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

Gilbert, W. S.