Common Opinions Quotes
- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
- We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote. — Michel de Montaigne
- But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of… — Baruch Spinoza
- If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be… — Alexis de Tocqueville