Critic Quote by George Bancroft Download Open image “The public is wiser than the wisest critic.” — George Bancroft ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Critic Public Than Wisdom Wiser Wisest
The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A wise man makes his own decisions,but an ignorant man follows the public opinion. — Grantland Rice Copy Share Image
You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles. — Rachel Field Copy Share Image
Public opinion is the greatest force for good, when it happens to be on our side — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion — Chinese Proverbs Copy Share Image
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“The disturbances in the country grew not out of anything republican, but out of slavery, which is a part of the system of hereditary… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I remember the early 1980s, when I first got one of these fabulous film critic jobs. The downside was sitting through 'Splatteria III: The… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
“A good judge is not one who is impartial, but one who has prejudice for good.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez,… — Aaron Sanchez Copy Share Image
If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably - that probably… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can get wonderful cooperation out of the… — Sydney Greenstreet Copy Share Image
I kind of learned that I am way too tough of a critic on myself and that other people are not judging me as… — Lindsay Sloane Copy Share Image