Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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.

Best Quotes about Opinions

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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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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Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

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Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Turgenev, Ivan

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You're entitled to your own opinions. Your are not entitled to your own facts.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Victoria, Queen

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Phillips, Wendell

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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It rarely adds anything to say, In my opinion --not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

Goodman, Paul

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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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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.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Mark Twain