Truth!!

Truth is not always popular, but it is always right. --Unknown To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: it is the reward of self-esteem. --Nathaniel Branden US psychologist
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, money takes wings, those who cheer you today may curse you tomorrow. The only thing that endures is character. --Horace Greeley
I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with most opinions often have the fewest facts. --Bethania McKenstry
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something --Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less --Marion Barry Mayor of Washington, DC
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. --Aldous Leonard Huxley British writer
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they are popular; you make them because they're RIGHT. --Theodore Hesburgh former president, Univ. of Notre Dame
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow? --Albert Einstein
I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me. --Albert Einstein
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular. --Adlai Stevenson