Marc Faber Quotes

Where all think alike, none thinks very much.

When a man can take a poll and tell what everybody is thinking, that means nobody is really thinking anymore.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

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

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

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

We do our worst when we're surrounded by a lot of people who agree with us.

Human beings never think for themselves. 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. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.

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.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

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

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

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.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

Avoid false choices driven by ideology.