Being wise Quote by John Seabrook Download Open image “Crowds of minds can be wise, but crowds of bodies just aren't.” — John Seabrook ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being wise Body Crowds Crowds Bodies Crowds Minds Mind Minds Wise Psychology Wisdom Wise Wise Crowds
The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb. — Drew Curtis Copy Share Image
For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart;… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“The core idea behind the wisdom of crowds effect is that diverse knowledge and expertise is being collected and aggregated. Essentially, it argues that… — Rich Jolly Copy Share Image
The net poses a fundamental threat not only to the authority of the government, but to all authority, because it permits people to organize,… — John Seabrook Copy Share Image
“One cannot live outside the machine for more perhaps than half an hour. VIRGINIA WOOLF, THE WAVES” — John Seabrook Copy Share Image
“The very first hit factory was T.B. Harms, a Tin Pan Alley publishing company overseen by Max Dreyfus. With staff writers like Jerome Kern,… — John Seabrook Copy Share Image
Don't Shoot is a work of moral philosophy that reads like a crime novel - Immanuel Kant meets Joseph Wambaugh. It's a fascinating, inspiring,… — John Seabrook Copy Share Image
I don't think you can hold someone accountable for trampling someone else, because that person was probably pushed from behind. But if someone picks… — John Seabrook Copy Share Image
We live in a consumer culture, and Black Friday is like the July 4th of that culture. It might be good not to live… — John Seabrook Copy Share Image
Far more people die in the developing world than in the West. At religious festivals mainly. That's not a myth - the numbers don't… — John Seabrook Copy Share Image
To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly. — Chip Ingram Copy Share Image
Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace. — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
Were anyone wondering how Sen. Harry Reid intended to manage life in the minority, it took one day of the 114th Congress to get… — Kimberley Strassel Copy Share Image
If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of… — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to know you… — Donato Giancola Copy Share Image
