Misguided Opinions Quotes

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

Convictions are much more an enemy of the truth than lies.

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

The convictions of the multitudes … are sincere convictions. They are, as we know, sometimes disastrously erroneous; but they are also disastrously honest.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

I get angry when I think that people are blatantly incorrect on matters of fact.

Anybody who French bashes just might as well wear a badge that says 'I am a follower! I don't think for myself and I have no idea what I'm talking about.' That would be a French basher.

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!

That mob of peers [House of Lords] did really represent the English people—that is to say, it was honest, ignorant, vaguely excited, almost unanimous, and obviously wrong.

I did the 'Justice League' thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You can't do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil - the comment boards are the devil.

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.

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

Never for a moment believe that the great body of the citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and when convinced they will be ready to repair them.