Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

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

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

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Renan, Ernest

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

14.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Mark Twain

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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, William

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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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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

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Charles A. Dana

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

Churchill, Winston

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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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