464 Quotes About Crowds

The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.

It is more difficult to undermine faith than knowledge, love succumbs to change less than to respect, hatred is more durable than aversion, and at all times the driving force of the most important changes in this world has been found less in a scientific knowledge animating the masses, but rather in a fanaticism dominating them and in a hysteria which drove them forward.

If there is a waterfall at the end of a river, it is necessary to swim upstream! Crowds too are rivers that end with waterfalls!

No matter how different you are, no matter how different you think, no matter how extraordinary or how ordinary you are, when you get on a train, you will go in the same direction as everyone on that train! That's what happens to you if you mingle with the crowds! The crowd always takes you where it goes!

Crowds cause damage to the mind and body, and the only cure for this is to go away from the crowds for a while!

The biggest difference between a river and a river of crowds is that the first always reaches its goal, but the second usually gets tired and disperses before it reaches its goal!

To understand the universe and life deeply, it is necessary to get away from the crowds because crowds means chattering, it means producing empty words, it means not thinking! The crowd is a huge waste of time!

The clever person is not among the crowd, but outside of it! He has his own way, free from crowds!

A crowd-loving person will be deprived of the treasures of silence!