Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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.

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

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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 have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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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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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Rostand, Jean

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Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?

Byron, Lord

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Platiere, Jeane

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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 foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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

Renan, Ernest

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Brown, Les

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren