119 Herd Quotes
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Famous Herd Quotes
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. — Bertrand Russell
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. — Charles MacKay
Following the herd, average performance, extremes — Howard Marks
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Herd psychology, conformity, capitulation — Howard Marks
Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean. — Charlie Munger
If all you do is follow the herd, you'll just be stepping in poop all day — Wayne Dyer
Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike. — Bertrand Russell
It is easier to look after hundred sheep than one girl. — Icelandic Proverbs
Always drink upstream from the herd. — Will Rogers
We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows. — Bud Grant
The truth is, the herd is wrong about risk at least as often as it is about return. — Howard S. Marks
Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you. — Earl Sweatshirt
"You got beef, bring your cow, I will cattle you" — Lil Wayne
Short Herd Quotes
- Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. — George S. Patton
- My husband said it was him or the cat. I miss him sometimes. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd. — Doc Holliday
- In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. — Joseph Wood Krutch
- To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. — Sun Tzu
- Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized. — Gad Saad
- People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life. — Faye Resnick
- As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. — Ellen Perry
- A bull is not known in two herds. — Zimbabwean Proverbs
- Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle — Aleister Crowley
Herd Image Quotes
Follow The Herd Quotes
Memorable people do memorable things. Followers are seldom remembered. The herd mentality is the killer of innovation. — Gad Saad
The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen unto it, but to follow like beasts the first in the herd, they know not, nor care not whither, this were brutish. — Richard Hooker
If you're going to follow your bliss and make a difference in the world, you'll soon learn that you can't follow the herd. — Wayne Dyer
The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching; instead of herding cattle, I herd books. Writing is a form of herding, too; I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters. — Larry Mcmurtry
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars. — John Steinbeck
Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together. — Glenn Beck
What's hot today isn't likely to be hot tomorrow. The stock market reverts to fundamental returns over the long run. Don't follow the herd. — Warren Buffett
I don't want to follow the herd. — Alain Robert
Elephant Herd Quotes
Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008. — Lindsey Graham
The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. — Gene Spafford
To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world. — Isak Dinesen
Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store. — Jordan Sonnenblick
I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight. — Sayings
A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God. — Ray Comfort
Sheep Herd Quotes
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. — Ezra Pound
We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. — George S. Patton
I think herd mentality is a good thing overall. Because if every sheep had to figure out the velocity of the wolf and their personal risk, that would take forever. — Neal Barnard
His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive and once for attacking a tractor tread. — Tom Hayden
Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree. — Louis J. Camuti
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. — Edgar R. Fiedler
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. — Edgar Fiedler
A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep. — Jon Katz
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding. — Ezra Pound
No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. — Ezra Pound
Cow Herd Quotes
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd! — Rowan Atkinson
On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We'd go and get me a calf at a cow auction with Amish people, which I would raise. I gave it a bottle every day, in this cute little coop, like a giant dog coop almost. I've always been a big animal person. — Krysten Ritter
I've been involved in activities with other people who were put in jail. We were protesting the closing of the prison farm program at the prison I used in a previous book, Alias Grace. Some of us also put up money in order to save the heirloom herd of cows there. So I own half a cow! — Margaret Atwood
I have three cows, and I'm looking forward to more in the future, so I'll have a little herd. — Lindsey Vonn
Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires. — Edward Abbey
i was momentarily sidetracked by the vision of Eric herding a cow into a trailer and driving it to the shoulder of the the interstate and shooing it into the trees. — Charlaine Harris
Herding Cats Quotes
Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. — Dan Greenburg
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. — Eloisa James
Organizing atheists is a bit like herding cats; They are on the whole too intelligent and independent minded to lend themselves to being herded. — Richard Dawkins
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of. — Walter Scott
One cat just leads to another. — Ernest Hemingway
Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God. — Jeff Valdez
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. — Jules Verne
Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. — Richard Dawkins
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys. — Barbara Holland
Managing senior programmers is like herding cats. — David Platt
Herd Mentality Quotes
Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing — Jessica Livingston
We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also. — Vivienne Westwood
I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you. — Dylan Moran
Hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different. It's okay to stand out for whatever reason. Some people are just born that way and instead of trying to tear them down, learn something new. Be curious and open because maybe that's a pathway out for you, too. — Rose McGowan
This hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different. — Rose McGowan
It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality. — Neal Barnard
And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all three of you. — Julia Quinn
People Writing About Herd
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Bertrand Russell |
1131 | 8798 |
 Howard Marks |
117 | 1 |
 Friedrich Nietzsche |
2473 | 32550 |
 Charles MacKay |
28 | 206 |
 Charlie Munger |
486 | 2888 |
 Wayne Dyer |
1072 | 10522 |
More Herd Quotes
The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are. — David Icke
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day. — Voltaire
A robin red-breast in a cage, puts all of Heaven in a rage. Think to yourself that every day is your last. The hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. As for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me in fine state... fat and sleek, a true hog of Epicurus's herd. — Hannibal
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. — Thomas Gray
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and daughters are clasped to your breast. — Genghis Khan
People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd. — J. P. Morgan
In Africa, there were few plants willing to be domesticated, and even fewer animals. Much of the land consists of jungle, swamp, desert, or steep-sided plateau, none of which lend themselves to the growing of wheat or rice, or sustaining herds of sheep. Africa's rhinos, gazelles, and giraffes stubbornly refused to be beasts of burden. — Tim Marshall
To be a very successful investor you have to be able to avoid some natural human tendencies to follow the herd. The stock market is going down every day your natural tendency is to want to sell. And the stock market is actually going up every day your tendency is to want to buy. So in bubbles you probably should be a seller. In busts you should probably be a buyer. You have to have that kind of discipline, you have to have a stomach to withstand the volatility of the stock market. — Bill Ackman
As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied. — Ian Fleming
My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest. — Albert Brooks
The Efficient Markets Hypothesis fails because humans are herd animals, not independent rational actors. Thus the best investors tend to be antisocial and contrarian. — Naval Ravikant
So you’re a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd! — Mandy Hale
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing. — Mary McCarthy
Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else. — H. P. Lovecraft
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle. — Albert Einstein
Seek to know God in your closets, call upon him in the fields. Follow the directions of the Book of Mormon, and pray over, and for your families, your cattle, your flocks, your herds, your corn, and all things that you possess [see Alma 34:18-27]; ask the blessing of God upon all your labors, and everything that you engage in. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. — Ben Hecht
War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense. — Randolph Bourne
Because you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions. — P. C. Cast
Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice liberty. — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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