Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

- Tarkington, Booth

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

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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

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

Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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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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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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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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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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Byron, Lord

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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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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Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

Saying, Zen

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Blake, William

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

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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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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.