Quote by Ben Hecht

“But to judge some people impartially we must renounce certain preconceived opinions and our habitual attitude to the ordinary people about us.”

— Crime and Punishment; Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“I've always depended very heavily on the good opinion of others.”

— Joseph Heller

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming…

— Albert Einstein

“A lot of people have opinions, but I don't think they ever ask themselves why their opinions are what they are.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Hasty opinion too often points the wrong way, and then affection for one's own opinion binds up the intellect.”

— Dante Alighieri

“Understand how people came by their opinions.”

— Ray Dalio

“People with too high an opinion of themselves get cut down; people with too low an opinion of themselves get pushed around....”

— Lolly Daskal

“We like to think that all people have hidden depths, but the fact is that a lot of people are shallow. The vast majority…

— Jessica Zafra

“I found it difficult to accept that people could be so easily manipulated into supporting positions that contradicted both their self-proclaimed values and their…

— Frederic C. Rich

“Most people don't think for themselves. They just regurgitate someone else's opinion and pass it off as their own.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

“Yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the…

— Jane Austen