Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

- Tarkington, Booth

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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.

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

Epictetus

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

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

Blake, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Saying, Zen

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Souter, David H.

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Byron, Lord

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

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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

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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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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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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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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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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

George Bush

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell