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Right vs. popular

The superior man understands what is right. The inferior man understands what is popular.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 8, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories knowledgeTags Confucius

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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