The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.
Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.
The majority is always sane.
Reason will conclude that where multitude is, there is the truth.
Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.
The public is never wrong.
I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.
What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.
Parties think slowly.
In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.
There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
The leftist is anti-individualistic... He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his own ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs.
Find like-minded people and try not to be individualized to the point where you try to fight it all and think about it all on your own.
Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing
Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.
I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.
A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
What one person does, several people usually consider.
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
I think herd mentality is a good thing overall. Because if every sheep had to figure out the velocity of the wolf and their personal risk, that would take forever.
I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.
