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

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Saying, Zen

We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Epictetus

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Mark Twain

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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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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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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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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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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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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