Oscar Wilde Quotes

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.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

I haven't got a problem with sheeple calling me crazy. What's sane? What is crazy?

Just because everybody else does something isn't a good enough reason to do anything.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

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

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.

Bandwagons roll through our lives. It's up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

I reject most conventional wisdom.

I wasn't overwhelmed by dogma, and that sort of freed me up to look at things differently.

I don't want to be married to any ideology, because life is a lot more fluid than that, and I think that we're trained and conditioned in this country to think in teams.

I have a suspicion of lockstep and everyone looking in the same direction: that's a key character trait in me.

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.

While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.