Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. — Plato
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. — Robert Peel
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands. — Sophocles
Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason. — Marcus Aurelius
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. — Thomas Carlyle
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. — Herbert Spencer
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. — Albert Einstein
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
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. — Mackenzie King
Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies. — Jacque Fresco
Don’t listen to opinions, unless you are also given an insight into the assumptions made for making those opinions. — Thomas Phelps
Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities... — H. P. Blavatsky
Short Forming Opinions Quotes
The more opinions you have, the less you see. — Wim Wenders
Always have your own opinion and belief. — Kim Jong-hyun
Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account. — Jacques Necker
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. — Winston Churchill
Prejudice is an opinion without judgment. — Voltaire
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice. — Gore Vidal
Knowledge is true opinion. — Plato
When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand. — Jimmy Carter
Forming Opinions Image Quotes
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
Forming Your Own Opinions Quotes
You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions. — Stephanie Perkins
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil. — Horatio Nelson
I don't want to be one of these filmmakers that hit you over the head with my agenda or my opinion. I just want to take you down the 50-yard line and let you form your own opinion of what this controversy is about. — Ric Roman Waugh
10% of conflict is due to difference in opinion and 90% is due to delivery and tone of voice.
The interpretive element of "Lost," the fact that you immediately need as soon as the episode is over to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion, that's the bread and butter of the show. — Damon Lindelof
Forming Opinions Quotes
People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read. — Rick Barry
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow. — Philip Sidney
I hold no brief for Communists, but I believe in and will defend their right to act independently within the law. I question whether members of the committee are interested in defending our form of government or whether they are attempting to suppress political opinion at odds with their own. — Gregory Peck
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. — E. B. White
I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government. — Edmund Burke
Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator...If a work doesnt express the composers own personal point of view, his own ideas, then it doesnt, in my opinion, even deserve to be born. — Dmitri Shostakovich
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more fit than any other to give an idea of chemistry. — Jons Jacob Berzelius
I'd rather be this walking metamorphosis than having that old formed opinion about everything. — Raul Seixas
I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.) — Robert Anton Wilson
I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions. — George Carlin
Have Your Own Opinion Quotes
You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone. — Marcus Aurelius
You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire — Kim Basinger
The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts. — Ricky Gervais
A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.
If you did it, own it. If you said it, stand by it. Not just the mistakes, but all your decisions and choices. That’s your reputation. Make it count. If you want your opinions to have value, you have to be willing to put them out there and mean what you say. — Tim Grover
If you worry about what other people think of you, then you will have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own. — Andy Andrews
Everyone should have their own opinion and be able to voice it. No matter what it is. Of course, that does not mean your opinion is always right. But, you're certainly entitled to your opinion. — Tim McGraw
Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all. — William Temple
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. — Bertrand Russell
You have the right to your own ideas and opinions, to make your own decisions, and to have things go your way at times. Stand up for those rights. — Beverly Engel
Having An Opinion Quotes
Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, theyre from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin. And if we have an opinion, you know youre gonna hear it. — Ashley Judd
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. — Angela Carter
Resist the desire to have an opinion on everything. Your expertise is narrower than you think and the world needs more signal, not more noise. — Chris Williamson
I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland. — Nicola Sturgeon
You don't have to have an opinion about everything. And to a certain extent, you don't have to always know what the fuck is going on. Sometimes there's value in not knowing. — Mark Manson
I'm a firm believer in... just because these guys are professional athletes or whatever, everybody's going to have an opinion on something, and not everybody's going to get along. I've had my words with fans on Twitter too. — Dana White
I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage. — Anne Frank
Even people you hate deserve opinions. And sometimes they’re going to have better ideas than yours. Keep an open mind to everyone. — Markiplier
Of course you can have an opinion about Islam without having read Qur'an. You don't have to read Mein Kampf to have an opinion about Nazism. — Richard Dawkins
Controversial issues are always more interesting but I don't create material about a subject I have opinion on just because it's controversial. The most fun is having a point of view that the audience is generally against and presenting an argument that challenges their thinking. — Doug Stanhope
Informed Opinions Quotes
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. — Harlan Ellison
A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated — Haile Selassie
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about. — H. P. Lovecraft
Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others. — Ray Comfort
In fact, I think [Donald Trump] welcomes the fact that he's got people in the room that may not agree with each other on everything, but he prefers to be presented opinions that are varying at the same time and then making an informed decision based on everyone's input before making decisions. — Reince Priebus
When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion. — Stephen Coonts
Science, history and politics are not suited for discussion except by experts. Others are simply in the position of requiring more information; and, till they have acquired all available information, cannot do anything but accept on authority the opinions of those better qualified. — Frank P. Ramsey
No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed. — James Woods
Daily, from sunrise to sunset, the radio, newspapers and magazines broadcast to the world how to maintain health, how to regain health... the conflicting information, expressive of the different opinions of these various health authorities, has proved to be nothing less than confusion. — Joseph Pilates
After the war, he became a big proponent of the argument that chemical warfare or gas warfare was actually a more humane form of warfare than shrapnel and bombs, because he saw what all those shrapnel and bombs did to all the boys who climbed out of the trenches and tried to cross no man's land, with German machine guns and artillery on the other side, he said I'll take the gas any day. I'm not making the case for gas warfare, but the idea that getting killed by gas is more horrible than getting ripped apart by shrapnel and bullets is not one I buy. And when I see the Obama administration putting pictures of people killed by gas up on the internet, I say let's put pictures of the people who got killed by shrapnel up there, and lets have a debate about which pictures look worse. It won't even be an interesting debate, getting killed by shrapnel, in my opinion, is a lot more gruesome and a lot worse. — John Mearsheimer
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. — James Madison
In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture. — Henry Moore
The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion. — Thomas Jefferson
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. — Hannah Arendt
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda. — Douglas MacArthur
There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory. — Robert A. Heinlein
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. — Edith Sitwell
The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion. — Soren Kierkegaard
It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever. — Douglas Adams
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor. — Friedrich Schiller
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. — William Temple
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People strive to achieve a certain form of perfection constantly and it's impossible because it's a form of opinion. I can think someone is pretty but the person next to me can think that they're unattractive. — Mila Kunis
By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions. — Jens Stoltenberg
Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the other prevails they form the government. Hence arises the common opinion that there are two kinds of government - democracy and oligarchy. — Aristotle
Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others! — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence. — Plato
The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from all its aspects has been made. — H. P. Blavatsky
In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things. — Sam Taylor-Wood
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. — James Fenimore Cooper
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. — William Hazlitt
The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion. — Napoleon Hill
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth. — Socrates
We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions. — William Shatner
To form a strong opinion, you have to be knowledgeable about the subject. You have to have access to all the relevant information. You gotta be literally an expert. — Vincent Bugliosi
Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis. — Lee Gutkind
In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations. — Edmund Burke
Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. — Edith Sitwell
Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion. — Will Rogers
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