False consensus Quotes

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

Nor is the People's Judgment always true: The Most may err as grossly as the Few.

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

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

Crowds create illusions.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.

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

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

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

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.

Everything popular is wrong.

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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

The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice on any subject, people are apt to suppose that they cannot hang together much longer.

Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.