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> [“Science promised us truth, or at least a knowledge of such relations as our intelligence can seize: it never promised us peace or happiness. Sovereignly indifferent to our feelings, it is deaf to our lamentations. It is for us to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/science-promised-us-truth-or-at-least-a-knowledge-of-such-relations/)

[Gustave Le Bon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-le-bon/)

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> [Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/science-has-promised-us-truth-it-has-never-promised-us-either-peace/)

[Gustave Le Bon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-le-bon/)

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## More by Gustave Le Bon

> [“A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too many chances…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/a-civilization-when-the-moment-has-come-for-crowds-to-acquire-a-high/)

[Gustave Le Bon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-le-bon/)

> [“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/the-masses-have-never-thirsted-after-truth-they-turn-aside-from/)

[Gustave Le Bon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-le-bon/)

> [All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/all-the-civilizations-we-know-have-been-created-and-directed-by-small/)

[Gustave Le Bon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-le-bon/)

> [ “To the Jacobins of this epoch \[the French Revolution\], as well as to those of our times, this popular entity constitutes a superior personality… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/to-the-jacobins-of-this-epoch-the-french-revolution-as-well-as-to/)

[Gustave Le Bon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-le-bon/)

> [The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/the-images-evoked-by-words-being-independent-of-their-sense-they-vary/)

[Gustave Le Bon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-le-bon/)

> [“To lose time in the manufacture of cut-and-dried constitutions is, in consequence, a puerile task, the useless labour of an ignorant rhetorician. Necessity and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/to-lose-time-in-the-manufacture-of-cut-and-dried-constitutions-is-in/)

[Gustave Le Bon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-le-bon/)

> [Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/are-the-worst-enemies-of-society-those-who-attack-it-or-those-who-do/)

[Gustave Le Bon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-le-bon/)

> [“If one destroyed in museums and libraries, if one hurled down on the flagstones before the churches all the works and all the monuments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/if-one-destroyed-in-museums-and-libraries-if-one-hurled-down-on-the/)

[Gustave Le Bon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-le-bon/)

> [“From the primary school till he leaves the university a young man does nothing but acquire books by heart without his judgment or personal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/from-the-primary-school-till-he-leaves-the-university-a-young-man/)

[Gustave Le Bon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-le-bon/)

> [The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognizable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/the-precise-moment-at-which-a-great-belief-is-doomed-is-easily/)

[Gustave Le Bon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-le-bon/)

> [“The work of a crowd is always inferior, whatever its nature, to that of an isolated individual.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/the-work-of-a-crowd-is-always-inferior-whatever-its-nature-to-that-of/)

[Gustave Le Bon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-le-bon/)

> [“Expressions such as infamous capital, vile exploiters, the admirable working man, the socialisation of wealth, &c., always produce the same effect, although already somewhat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/expressions-such-as-infamous-capital-vile-exploiters-the-admirable/)

[Gustave Le Bon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-le-bon/)

> [“Instead of preparing men for life French schools solely prepare them to occupy public functions, in which success can be attained without any necessity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/instead-of-preparing-men-for-life-french-schools-solely-prepare-them/)

[Gustave Le Bon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-le-bon/)

> [“When, however, it is proposed to imbue the mind of a crowd with ideas and beliefs—with modern social theories, for instance—the leaders have recourse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/when-however-it-is-proposed-to-imbue-the-mind-of-a-crowd-with-ideas/)

[Gustave Le Bon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-le-bon/)

> [“Victims of the delusion that equality and liberty are the better assured by the multiplication of laws, nations daily consent to put up with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/victims-of-the-delusion-that-equality-and-liberty-are-the-better/)

[Gustave Le Bon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-le-bon/)

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