“ Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. ”
- Wilson Mizner- Copy
- 561
“ I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side — I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. ”
- Bethania McKenstry- Copy
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“ Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. ”
- James A. Garfield- Copy
- 984
“ As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. The popular type and exponent of obstinacy is the mule, a most intelligent animal. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 704
“ Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns. ”
- Hermione Gingold- Copy
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“ In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall. ”
- Oliver Herford- Copy
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“ You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. ”
- Aristophanes- Copy
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“ It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value. ”
- Alexander Hamilton- Copy
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“ Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more. ”
- Terry Pratchett- Copy
- 114
“ Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ I predict that exact reproduction through cloning will not become popular. Too many people already find it difficult to live with themselves. ”
- Jeanne Dixon- Copy
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“ All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach. ”
- Adolf Hitler- Copy
- 584
“ Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. - Letter accepting Presidential nomination, 188. ”
- James Abram Garfield- Copy
- 135
“ We can never make taxation popular, but we can make taxation fair. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow? ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. ”
- A.A. Milne- Copy
- 3.1K
“ A very popular error — having the courage of one's convictions: Rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack upon one's convictions. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 585
“ An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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