Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Klopstock

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Klopstock

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

Blake, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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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 only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.

Keats, John

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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 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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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Brown, Les

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

Edwards, Tryon

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Basinger, Kim

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.