opinion - quotes

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799

was a German scientist, satirist and Anglophile

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799

was a German scientist, satirist and Anglophile

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860

was a German philosopher

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Friedrich (Wilhelm) Nietzsche, 1844-1900

was a German philosopher

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Plato, ca. 427 BC-ca. 347 BC

was a Greek author and philosopher in Athens

Knowledge is true opinion.

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

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.

(Adeline) Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941

was an English novelist

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

( “A Room of One's Own”, 1929 )

John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873

was an English economist and philosopher

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one — if he had the power — would be justified in silencing mankind.