Crowds Quote by Peter Thiel

As an investor-entrepreneur, I’ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.

— Peter Thiel

People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.

— Albert Bandura

The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

I hated discussing ideas with investors, because then I become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process.

— Michael Burry

“Most people instinctively follow a dominant trend in an organization or community, without critical evaluation of its merits. The herd instinct is strong.”

— Ronald A. Heifetz

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

— Lawrence Block

As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more annoying, more…

— George Will

The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.

— George Henry Lewes

“We feel that we are at the point of attaining autonomy as we imitate our models of power and prestige. This autonomy, however, is…

— René Girard

The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.

— Jean Houston

Learning and the exchange of ideas is dramatic.

— Marc Randolph