Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

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Best Quotes about Opinions

Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.

Batcheller, Irving

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

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Rogers, Will

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Navon, Yitzhak

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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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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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Brown, Les

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Renan, Ernest

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Byron, Lord

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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.