Charles Dickens Quotes

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

Better be wrong with the many than right with the few.

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

The fact that the entire world says something does not mean it is correct

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

One must not mistake majority for truth.

If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living in hell. What does it mean? That means the majority of people are wrong. So I never believed what people told me.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

Everything popular is wrong.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually

In our "age of the expert" the expert has his constituency — those who have a vested interest in commonly held opinions; elaborating and defining the consensus at a high level has, after all, made him an expert.

A misconception remains a misconception, even when it is shared by the majority of people.

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't.

The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.