Edgar Fiedler Quotes

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

One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals.

When everyone thinks alike, no one is thinking clearly.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

The majority of business people are sheeple.

Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together.

I'm a sheep when it comes to opinions; I will change my mind and jump on the bandwagon.

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

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.

… blind followers …

Where all think alike, none thinks very much.

The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

In every generation, there's a strong tendency for everyone to think like everyone else.

It's so easy for folks to normalize their opinions, to engage in a groupthink that is damaging.

Not that I wish to give you any ammunition, but the sad fact of it is-most men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will follow. And didn't you say you wished to be married?' 'Not to someone who follows you as the lead sheep.

In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.

It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality.

Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.

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

Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.

Human beings never think for themselves; they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.