Popular Wisdom Quotes

#1. I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across.

Coco Chanel

#2. Shouldn't those who were born to expect death be the sole subjects of gleaning?" went the popular wisdom. But it was bigotry masquerading as wisdom. Selfishness posing as enlightenment.

Neal Shusterman

#3. People are who they are by the way they react to things.

Glen Keane

#4. Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.

Nachman Of Breslov

#5. Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

Terry Pratchett

#6. A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with their staged performances, invigorating songs, popular wisdom and shared experience, are almost a form of community theater.

Lisa Randall

#7. He kept himself in line with popular opinion, which meant popular prejudice.

John Howard Griffin

#8. It is culture that is the bully.
Orn Ald yos'Senchul to Theo Waitley, Saltation

Sharon Lee

#9. The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion's share of all the agencies. And we've moved, I think, with a tremendous sense of urgency. But it takes a long time to write rules and get them approved by a five-member commission.

Mary Schapiro

#10. With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.

George Carlin

#11. The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

John Stuart Mill

#12. Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied.

Gregory Galloway

#13. [I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets ...

William Jones

#14. The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism is more important.

Rod Dreher

#15. There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.

Brad Pitt

#16. Some people say I've got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I'd sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in 'The Fifth Element.' And I'm nothing like that blue alien. I've got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.

Mika.

#17. Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power - it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

Anthony Robbins

#18. Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.

Simon R. Green

#19. Sorry stared at the coin, feeling echoes of power slam into her skull like ocean waves.

Steven Erikson

#20. If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.

Rudolf Virchow

#21. The popular contemporary wisdom that a liberal arts education is outmoded is true only to the extent that social equality, liberty, and worldly development of mind and character are outmoded and have been displaced by another set of metrics: income streams, profitability, technological innovation.

Wendy Brown

#22. Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear ...

Peter McWilliams

#23. I respect Snoop even aside from the music, just as a man, and especially the way he still represents who he is, after being a pop star and an icon. He's done it successfully and has still been able to balance it.

Nipsey Hussle

#24. The modern mind is never popular in its own day. People hate being made to think.

Edith Hamilton

#25. Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters's pearl.

Remy De Gourmont

#26. Each person is worth the value put on them by the affection of others, and that is where popular wisdom has found that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Machado De Assis