Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

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

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

Charles A. Dana

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Platiere, Jeane

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Saying, Zen

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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 majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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 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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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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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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

Rogers, Will

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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