Quotes with opinions

  • Few men think, yet all will have opinions.
  • Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
  • The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
  • The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
  • Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.
  • People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
  • Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
  • Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
  • Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
  • The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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  • Charles McCabe Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.
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  • Gloria Steinem Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either that Bob would flog Billy, or Billy would flog Bob.
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    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • John Morley Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Joseph De Maistre 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.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Brendan Dooling Society puts so much emphasis on outer appearance, but being confident in yourself and not letting others' opinions affect you is pretty amazing.
    Brendan Dooling
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Alan Cohen Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Daniel Webster A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Patrick Kavanagh A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • William Butler Yeats All empty souls tend to extreme opinions.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Alexander Pope An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Persius And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.
    Persius
    Roman poet and satirist (34 - 62)
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  • Booth Tarkington Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Bill Flores As you get larger, it is harder to have focused discussions. Because one of the things I've learned about Congress over the past four years that I've been in is there's no shortage of opinions about how things should be done on any particular subject.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Carla Bruni But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.
    Carla Bruni
    Italian-French singer-songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Adam Duritz But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
    Adam Duritz
    American musician and record producer (1964 - )
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