289 Quotes About Popularity

The political nature of man made it highly unlikely that a society designed to meet regularly would remain peaceable. "The way to make friends quarrel is to pit them in disputation under the public eye," Jefferson said.

Stop looking for the biggest crowd, and start looking for the right crowd.

Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame.

When a child sees herself through the prism of her peer group, the resulting self image can be distorted.

Sense isn’t democratic. A senseless opinion that’s advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless.

[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.

I am not superior than anybody, don't say i am, else i won't defend you when you get caught.

Being famous means surrounding yourself in the collective opinions of the masses. It takes a strong will not to drown in such powerful currents. - The Malwatch

Darwin's theory was received in Russia with profound sympathy. While in Western Europe it met firmly established old traditions which it had first to overcome, in Russia its appearance coincided with the awakening of our society after the Crimean War and here it immediately received the status of full citizenship and ever since has enjoyed widespread popularity.