Conditions Quote by Charles William Eliot

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

— Frank B. Kellogg

Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress,…

— Bertrand Russell

The intelligence of the universe is social.

— Marcus Aurelius

Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of…

— Moses Finley

A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on…

— Haile Selassie

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

— Anonymous

Public opinion is the greatest force for good, when it happens to be on our side

— William Gilmore Simms

Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain; and, knowing that error insinuates itself…

— Mary Worley Montagu

“The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception…

— Samuel Johnson

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

— Mahatma Gandhi