Intellectual Quote by Theodore Dalrymple

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

— Will Rogers

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

— George Will

“when ordinary people are exposed to intensive political education and conversation on specific policy issues, they often change their mind”

— Christopher H. Achen

I'm not a politician and I'm not trying to change anybody's mind. I'm just exploring what I see.

— Nick Damici

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

— Henry David Thoreau

Most educated people are not set up to listen or change their minds about politics, however sensible they are in other fields.

— Dominic Cummings

He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them…

— Francesco Guicciardini

That's the one thing a politician mustn't have - political opinions or principles. He can have prejudices - indeed he must have prejudices and…

— Helen McCloy

Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant.

— Friedrich Kellner

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

— Tryon Edwards

The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce…

— Paul Harris

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

— George Bernard Shaw