Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Opinions

Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Brown, Les

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

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

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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 opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

Einstein, Albert

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell