Public opinion Quote by George W. Bush

“most people believe they’re making fact-based decisions, when they are, in fact, making opinion-based ones.”

— Nat Greene

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or…

— Henry David Thoreau

“...decisions were often made because of ideology and politics. As a result many wrong-headed actions were taken, ones that did not solve the problem…

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“There is the history of opinions which is hardly anything but a collection of human errors.”

— Voltaire

“In the business of scholarship, evidence is far more flexible than opinion. The prevailing view of the past is controlled not by evidence but…

— Hugh Nibley

“There is almost no human action or decision that cannot be made to look flawed and less sensible in the misleading light of hindsight.…

— Sidney Dekker

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

— Abraham Lincoln

“Statistics lie. They are designed to sway opinions. Take the time to keep yourself informed on things that matter.”

— Steve Maraboli

“One of the major problems leading to the breakdown of society is that we have far too many opinions dictating life choices and not…

— Tony Evans

“Throughout history, it is often the ostensibly innocuous more so than any notable provenance that leads to the irreparable consequential.”

— Steve Sagarra

“We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have happened but didn't, or by our…

— Rabih Alameddine