Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

A lot of people believe what other people say.

Online, you're trying to appeal to everyone and people who you don't know at the same time. So I think, as a side effect, it amplifies the desire for groupthink.

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

What is public opinion? It is private indolence.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

I've been amazed at how fast and herd-like opinions in the United States are.

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

What the multitude says is so, or soon will be.

The masses, the public, is too strict.

What is seen being done by the many soon obtains the force of custom; while the affairs of men have scarcely ever been so well regulated that the better things pleased the majority. Therefore, the private vices of the many have often caused public error, or rather a general agreement on vices, which these good men now want to make law…

People gravitate to what they believe to be popular... Technology is enabling even more of that.

Popular opinion is the biggest 'filter' for most people - they don't have to try something if they've already been told it's not cool.

What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out that others are doing something. It's also known as informational social influence.

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

Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.

If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.

We're all sheep and lemmings to some degree.

Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.