"The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar."
Read quote
6 likes
Crowds quotes
Crowds
665 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Crowds
Browse quotes that often appear alongside crowds — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Crowds quotes (page 6 of 34)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris ... and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater ridicule. And no visit is more essential."
Read quote
6 likes
"It was more like an abortion than music, but he got a wildly enthusiastic response from the crowd. Well, we're all pro-choice out here in Hillmont, after all."
Read quote
6 likes
"Death calls ye to the crowd of common men."
Read quote
6 likes
"Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead."
Read quote
6 likes
"He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature does not display or even will publish genuine miracles of nature without regard to deeper causes is a spiritually corrupt person... With the best of intentions I publicly speak to the crowd (which is eager for things new) on the subject of what is to come."
Read quote
6 likes
"Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?"
Read quote
6 likes
"Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned."
Read quote
5 likes
"I'm with a crowd but oh so alone."
Read quote
5 likes
"There is never a crowd on the leading edge."
Read quote
5 likes
"Add in the good stuff - eventually it will crowd out the bad stuff."
Read quote
5 likes
"Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that is all right. You don't have to tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds."
Read quote
5 likes
"To follow the crowd Is to miss The destination."
Read quote
5 likes
"Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially."
Read quote
5 likes
"You can't lead from the crowd."
Read quote
5 likes
"There are idiots in every crowd."
Read quote
5 likes
"He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure."
Read quote
5 likes
"Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water."
Read quote
5 likes
"If we keep our eyes fixed on God alone, then truly he must work in us and nothing, neither the crowd nor any place can hinder him in this."
Read quote
5 likes
"I draw from the crowd a lot."
Read quote
5 likes