Popular Belief Quotes

Conventional wisdom

What the multitude says is so, or soon will be.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not promiscuous. There does seem to be a mistaken belief out there that I am sexually available somehow — which is not to say that I'm not open-minded about sex.

Contrary to popular belief, not a significant amount of research goes into cockroach radiation.

Contrary to popular belief, I really enjoyed my time on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Contrary to popular belief, there are actually quite a few guys in the action sports community that have faith and are Christians.

Contrary to popular belief, I don't go out very much. When I do go out, a lot of times it'll be to something like a heavyweight fight, and I'll be photographed, so that people have this conception that I go out a lot.

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,as would render it eligible for human kind, that there should be such a state. These fine models of religion are the mere product of philosophy. For as death lies between the eye and the prospect of futurity, that event is so shocking to nature, that it must throw a gloom on all the regions which lie beyond it; and suggest to the generality of mankind the idea of Cerberus and Furies; devils, and torrents of fire and brimstone.

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

Contrary to popular belief, all I want to do is empower people.

The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.

I think frankly a lot of people agree with what I'm saying.

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-minded people anywhere in the British Isles.

Power is founded upon opinion.

Conventional wisdom is not always wrong.