Competing Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress... it is always from a…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

— Thomas Carlyle

Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular…

— Herodotus

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

— Socrates

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course,…

— Joseph Campbell

When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by itself, needing…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Every possible opinion is authored about everything. What's going to eventually happen is someone will look back on this period and have to sift…

— Chuck Klosterman

The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason,…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“A majority opinion does not represent the ultimate decision because such a view is not unanimous and lacks general will.”

— Duop Chak Wuol

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory,…

— Milan Kundera