Quotes About Herd mentality

humans are much more like sheep than cats. They're easily led and they don't look where they're going until it's too late.

You cannot lead and follow a herd at the same time.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

As for us, we behave like a herd of deer. When they flee from the huntsman's feathers in affright, which way do they turn? What haven of safety do they make for? Why, they rush upon the nets! And thus they perish by confounding what they should fear with that wherein no danger lies. . . . Not death or pain is to be feared, but the fear of death or pain. Well said the poet therefore:— Death has no terror; only a Death of shame!

First, we seem to assume that if a lot of people are doing the same thing, they must know something we don't.

The Black Sheep. The herd shuns the black sheep, uncertain whether or not it belongs with them. So it straggles behind, or wanders away from the herd, where it is cornered by wolves and promptly devoured. Stay with the herd—there is safety in numbers. Keep your differences in your thoughts and not in your fleece.

Most people go along with the crowd. They do things because everybody else does it.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

the individual must blind himself from seeing that which his group claims does not exist, or accept as truth that which the majority says is true, even if his own eyes could convince him that it is false. The herd is so vitally important for the individual that their views, beliefs, feelings, constitute reality for him, more so than what his senses and his reason tell him.

the wisdom of crowds is sometimes overwhelmed by the madness of mobs.

Second conclusion: If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on.

Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

Um ein tadelloses Mitglied einer Schafherde sein zu können, muß man vor allem ein Schaf sein.

Mindlessness and moral idiocy are not characteristically human attributes; they are symptoms of herd-poisoning.

the herd instinct and crowd behavior arise out of our desire to replace uncertainty with certainty

Sheep are in.

You know what 'congregate' means? It's from the Latin. 'Greg' means herd. 'Con' means with. We're with our herd.

The Americans did not withdraw from the battlefield in a manner recommended by military manuals. Rather they left in a crowd with no regiment retaining its integrity as a unit. Gates made no attempt to discipline or reorganize this herd, choosing rather to outdistance it astride a fast horse.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated." Gustave Le Bon

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

History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.

People are sheep—cowardly, deplorable sheep.

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.