Forming Opinions Quotes

#1. 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

#2. ... But sometimes a person begins with opinions and judgments and valid criticisms, but then things creep in that have nothing to do with forming opinions, and then it's all over with strict logic, and what you end up with is an absurd world republic and beautiful style.

Thomas Mann

#3. In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#4. Mrs General had no opinions. Her way of forming a mind was to prevent it from forming opinions. She had a little circular set of mental grooves or rails on which she started little trains of other people's opinions, which never overtook one another, and never got anywhere.

Charles Dickens

#5. 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

#6. There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

Arthur Schopenhauer

#7. I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

William Faulkner

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. People, in forming their opinions of others, are usually lazy enough to go by whatever is most obvious or whatever chance remark they happen to hear. So the best policy is to dictate to others the opinion you want them to have of you.

Judith Martin

#11. I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups ... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success.

George Clooney

#12. How is it that standing outside for a minute in 90 degree heat is torture, yet standing in a blistering hot shower for 20 minutes is paradise?

Sara Marcus

#13. First check whether the market as a whole is rising or falling. In other words, are you in a bull market or bear market? If the latter, stay out. The odds are against you.

Nicolas Darvas

#14. It was a needless precaution, I felt sure, but men always enjoy marching around with weapons and flexing their figurative muscles, and I saw no reason to deny them this harmless exercise.

Elizabeth Peters

#15. She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones.

Muriel Spark

#16. It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.

Johnny Depp

#17. And it was like I knew, and that certainty planted itself in my belly like a warm secret.

Gayle Forman

#18. Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside ...

Dean Koontz

#19. We are doorways, openings into something greater than ourselves, something that we don't understand and will never understand. We have nothing precious in and of ourselves. We are only precious in that we are part of something that is too big to know.

Eleanor Morse

#20. You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.

Stephanie Perkins

#21. About the gods I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist or what they are to look at. Many things prevent my knowing. Among others, the fact that they are never seen.

Protagoras

#22. 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

#23. It is often very illuminating ... to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Walter Lippmann

#24. Using the word chic while insulting someone doesn't make it okay.

Luella Christie

#25. War is not human nature. It is a habit.

Gregg Braden

#26. What are you asking God for?" I joked. "A million dollars? Two million?" "I'm not asking Him for anything," he said. "I'm thanking Him for good food and wine, good health and famiglia.

Wally Lamb

#27. I have purposed to try to live in such a way that nothing ever gets bigger than my consciousness of God's presence.

Bill Johnson

#28. what am i to you he asks
i put my hands in his lap
and whisper you
are every hope
i've ever had
in human form

Rupi Kaur

#29. Would you ever buy chocolate with DDT? How about Cheerios with arsenic? Not very likely!

Gudjon Bergmann