Voltaire Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

  Voltaire

  Believe, Independent, Taste

  "Candide, Or, Optimism". Book by Voltaire, 1759.

• Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

  Voltaire

  Believe, Government, Democracy

• It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

  Voltaire

  Brother, Men, Monsters

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.142, Penguin

• Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

  Voltaire

  Earthquakes, Political, Politics

• No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

  Voltaire

  Burning, Opinion, Neighbor

• Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

  Voltaire

  Justice, Prejudice, Opinion

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.120, Penguin

• It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

  Voltaire

  Government, Giving, Opinion

• The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

  Voltaire

  Law, Opinion, Cry

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.326

• Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

  Voltaire

  Queens, World, Usurpers

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.135

• In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Rome, Religion

• The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

  Voltaire

  Errors, Opinion, Humans

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.3782, Delphi Classics

• A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

  Voltaire

  Inspiring, Moving, Heart

• Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

  Voltaire

  Book, Beer, Judgement

• It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

  Voltaire

  Age, Opinion, Popular Opinion

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.135

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