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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to
wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the
majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a
majority of the people.
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-Giordano Bruno
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If a million people believe a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
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-Anatole France
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Everything great and intelligent is in the
minority.
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-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Truth is not determined by majority vote.
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-Doug Gwyn
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What monstrosities would walk the streets
were some peoples faces as unfinished as their minds.
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-Eric Hoffer
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the
beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.
You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were
implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject
them.
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-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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The most common of all falsities is to believe
passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of
mankind.
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-H.L. Mencken
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~The surest way to corrupt
a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike
than those who think differently.
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-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The Dawn, 1881
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*Really, Crito, why should
we care so much about what 'most people' believe?
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-The character Socrates, in Plato's
Crito
44d
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~The fact that an opinion
has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;
indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread
belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
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-Bertrand Russell
Marriage and Morals, 1929
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Whenever masses of people, especially educated
people, know something--and what they know is something they greatly fear
because they believe it affects virtually everything they do or want to do--
then most likely we stand in the presence of a vast falsehood.
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-Thomas Szasz
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I know that most men, including those at ease
with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest
and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity
of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which
they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by
thread, into the fabric of their lives.
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-Leo Tolstoy
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