Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.

No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.

The overwhelming majority of people in this country know how to sift the wheat from the chaff in what they hear and what they read. They know that the process of the constructive rebuilding of America cannot be done in a day or a year, but that it is being done in spite of the few who seek to confuse them and to profit by their confusion.

In every respect the burden is hard on those who attack an almost universal opinion. They must be very fortunate well as unusually capable if they obtain a hearing at all.

Opinion tolerates a false disclaimer, only when it already tolerates the thing disclaimed.

The old saying of ‘Vox populi, vox Dei’, as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science.

Everybody walks around talking about, 'Sam Allardyce's style is not good enough, he doesn't play the right way' and so on and so forth and it is a massive problem for me. People believe it. You believe the false lies, the false implications. Football does that - it believes that lie sometimes.

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

People love to yammer on about things that aren't real.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

The goal of security is common to all human beings; but some of them mistake the direction in which security lies.

It’s better to be quotable than to be honest.

To worship the people is to be worshipped.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Nor is the People's Judgment always true: The Most may err as grossly as the Few.

The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

Where all think alike, none thinks very much.

It is perilous to ignore idiotic ideas if those idiotic ideas are broadly and fervently believed.

It's not what you don't know that kills you but what you know that isn't so.