Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. — Thomas Carlyle
Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities... — H. P. Blavatsky
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. — Robert Peel
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. — Oscar Wilde
Most days, we'd rather be wrong with the crowd than be right by ourselves. — James Clear
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals. — Abba Eban
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
Short Popular Opinion Quotes
Conventional wisdom would have one believe. — Mumia Abu-Jamal
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands. — Sophocles
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. — Plato
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. — Bertrand Russell
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. — Utterly Russell
What people believe prevails over the truth. — Sophocles
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. — Carrie Chapman Catt
What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right. — Howard Cosell
A broad idea appeals to everyone. — Joe Gatto
Popular Opinion Image Quotes
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
Good Opinion Quotes
Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings. — Al-Ghazali
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. — Benjamin Franklin
Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out. — Judah Smith
10% of conflict is due to difference in opinion and 90% is due to delivery and tone of voice.
I don't dislike Matt Lindland. I didn't blackball him from the UFC, either. Matt Lindland is a good guy and I've never had a personal issue with him. — Dana White
When people say they don't like something, but they can't stop talking about it, you know it's good. — Changpeng Zhao
If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else. — Keith Johnstone
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. — A. E. Housman
I like Mark Hunt and I've always said good things about Mark Hunt. He goes a little bit off the rails every now and again, but I've never done anything but respect Mark Hunt. — Dana White
I do not live for people, for what they think, for them to say that I’m nice, good, the best, perfect. Everyone has their opinion. And I respect that. — Paul Pogba
Faith is having a good opinion of God. That God is a good God. He is not a taker but a give!!! — Joseph Prince
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. — Grantland Rice
Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government? — Voltaire
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor. — Rosa Luxemburg
It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown. — Charles Grandison Finney
A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated — Haile Selassie
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. — Winston Churchill
If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion. — James Q. Wilson
I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if He had taken a poll in the land of Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll? It isn't polls or public opinion alone of the moment that counts. — Harry S. Truman
I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland. — Nicola Sturgeon
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. — Charles Kuralt
A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.
Contrary to popular opinion, listening is not a passive activity. It is the most active thing you can do. — Chris Voss
The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed. — George Gaylord Simpson
The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.If you watch the flowing sand, you might see time itself riding the granules.Contrary to popular opinion, time is not an old white-haired man, but a laughing child.And time sings. — Vera Nazarian
REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion. — Ambrose Bierce
And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value. — Alexander Hamilton
We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity. — Marco Rubio
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? — William Lloyd Garrison
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure. — Fran Lebowitz
Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is a "barbed-wire entanglement" designed to interfere with, restrict, and impede government officials in the exercise of political power. — Jacob G. Hornberger
What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t ‘democratic’—it’s something that God has written into the very fabric of nature. — Charles Colson
Evolutionism is a religious world view that is not supported by science, Scripture, popular opinion, or common sense. The exclusive teaching of this dangerous, mind-altering philosophy in tax supported schools, parks, museums, etc. is a clear violation of the First Amendment. — Kent Hovind
Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry. — Swami Vivekananda
It's painful to listen to the barking of dogs. — Nizar Qabbani
Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back. — Judith Guest
It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion. — Voltaire
I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear. — Benjamin F. Wade
There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion. — Brad Pitt
Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule. — Gene Sharp
Contrary to popular opinion, classical music does not have to be enjoyed amid exclusive circles, there need not be any snobbishness attached to it. It's there for everyone. I play for the people. — Andre Rieu
I have never been over concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader. Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I'm meaningless. — Lee Kuan Yew
That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment. — Doris Kearns Goodwin
Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy. — Hosea Ballou
The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion. — Bertrand de Jouvenel
In sum, the purpose is to contest the popular view, because popular opinions are so frequently found to be untimely, misled (by propaganda), or plainly wrong. — Humphrey B. Neill
In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion. — Bryant H. McGill
Contrary to popular cable TV-induced opinion, aerobics have nothing to do with squeezing our body into hideous shiny Spandex, grinning like a deranged orangutan, and doing cretinous steps to debauched disco music. — Cynthia Heimel
Always follow these two rules: first, act only on what your reasoning mind proposes for the good of humanity, and second, change your opinion if someone shows you it's wrong. This change of mind must proceed only from the conviction that it's both correct and for the common good, but not because it will give you pleasure and make you popular. — Marcus Aurelius
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. — John Stuart Mill
We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that. — Neil Patrick Harris
I would've easily won the popular vote, much easier, in my opinion, than winning the electoral college. — Donald Trump
If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of Popularity is shame; if thou be once up, beware; from fame to infamy is a beaten road. — Francis Quarles
Absolute truth is not dependent upon public opinion or popularity. Now what is this truth? It is His gospel. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The temptation to be popular may prioritize public opinion above the word of God. Political campaigns and marketing strategies widely employ public opinion polls to shape their plans. Results of those polls are informative. But they could hardly be used as grounds to justify disobedience to God’s commandments! — Russell M. Nelson
In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned. — A. N. Wilson
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. — Mary Wollstonecraft
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. — David Eddings
Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie! — Wendell Phillips
We have all loved a guy we know has issues. Despite popular opinions, until we give it a final try, the relationship will always be in the 'what if' stage. — Patti Stanger
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