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  • Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

  • 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?

    Men   Thinking   Want  
    Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.295, Simon and Schuster
  • Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

    Time   Prejudice   Facts  
  • Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.

    Running   Men   Thinking  
    Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.134, Hackett Publishing
  • In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

    People   Opinion   Should  
    "Why Is Sam Taylor-Wood Smiling?" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 23, 2010.
  • If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.

    Men   Two   Soul  
  • 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 (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.18
  • You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.

    Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.50, Usborne Publishing Ltd
  • 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, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Love   Heart   Yellow  
  • 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 on Fame, Failure & Success, Cuaron’s ‘Gravity’ and ‘Monuments Men’" by Sophia Savage, www.indiewire.com. November 23, 2012.
  • 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.

  • 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 (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.28, Broadway Books
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