The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
More Quotes from George Bancroft:
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.George Bancroft
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
George Bancroft
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
George Bancroft
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
George Bancroft
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.Randy Harrison
The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.
Rita Coolidge
The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.
Margaret Haddix