Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Buckle, George Earle

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

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

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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.

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

Mark Twain

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

Renan, Ernest

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Brown, Les

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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 have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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

Byron, Lord

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Rogers, Will

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My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

33.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Rogers, Will

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

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Pope, Alexander

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Public opinion is a second conscience.