Quote by Thomas Mann

“Read as little as possible of literary criticism — such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Once a structurally complete and closed system of opinions consisting of many details and relations has been formed, it offers enduring resistance to anything…

— Ludwik Fleck

“When one says, ‘my opinion’, it creates a veil. Due to the veils of his opinions, one does not understand the opinions of other…

— Dada Bhagwan

“People prefer opinions to truth. They try to bend the world to fit their assumptions, instead of changing their assumptions to fit the world.…

— Elizabeth C. Mock

“Remember that everyone has opinions and they are often bad. Opinions are easy to produce; everyone has plenty of them and most people are…

— Ray Dalio

“We are men, all subject to errors. Our opinions are not in our power. They are formed and governed much by circumstances that are…

— Davidson Butler

“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

“Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Without such rules, there are no exchanges of ideas, only exchanges of set positions and insults. People who disagree rapidly move from talking over…

— Judith Martin

“Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.”

— Charles McCabe

“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