Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. - Thomas Carlyle

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. – Thomas Carlyle

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I would jump down Etna for any public good — but I hate a mawkish popularity. – John Keats

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Im shopping around for something to do that no one will like. – Jerry Garcia

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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. – Immanuel Kant

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A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf… For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. – Leonardo DaVinci

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Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure. – Stuart Rose

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He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. – Abraham Lincoln

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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. – Isaac Asimov

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