Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Batcheller, Irving

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Blake, William

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

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Byron, Lord

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

Brown, Les

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

Charles A. Dana

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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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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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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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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

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Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

Colton, Charles Caleb