Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Gilbert, W. S.

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Rogers, Will

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

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

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Wilde, Oscar

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Blake, William

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Epictetus

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

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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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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Renan, Ernest

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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.

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