Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Platiere, Jeane

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Charles A. Dana

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Epictetus

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Mark Twain

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Churchill, Winston

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A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.

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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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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rogers, Will

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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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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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 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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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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.