Motivational Quotes

Opinions

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Opinions

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Phillips, Wendell

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

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Churchill, Winston

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

11.

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

Blake, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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

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

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

Rogers, Will

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Byron, Lord

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

Brown, Les

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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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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 not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

46.

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

Virginia Woolf

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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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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