289 Quotes About Popularity

There is no returning to the masses - once your forays into theory have borne you far enough away from them that you can perceive them and the benefits of being among them. the only return is through the process of disillusionment; one must cease to care about motivating the masses to be reunited with them. Likewise, there is no converting them - no matter how many people you come to join you at your outpost, from up close they will never look as impressive as the distant crowd.

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

...if you are at times jealous of your friends’ high popularity, here’s your silver lining. The most popular can be among the first to hear new news but also the first exposed to new infections

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Popularity is not an evidence of authenticity.

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time

Science, however, is never conducted as a popularity contest, but instead advances through testable, reproducible, and falsifiable theories.

Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to your mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe.