In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.

- James Surowiecki

A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.

- William Cullen Bryant

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

You don't direct ostriches, you herd them.

- Shelley Duvall

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

- Steven Spielberg

Entrepreneurs are like cats, because they are independent and do their own thing. Although organisations say they like cats, what they really want is sheep that they can herd.

- Max McKeown

When most members of a community are vaccinated, they protect those who are not by eliminating the viral reservoirs in the population. The effect is known as 'herd immunity.'

- Michael Specter

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

- Loren Eiseley

I now have great color sprinkled throughout my herd.

- Janine Turner

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

- Jean Henri Fabre

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

- Archibald MacLeish

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

- John Dryden

The rush of a herd of bellowing yaks at a wild gallop, waving their huge tails, is a grand sight.

- Isabella Bird

O imitators, you slavish herd!

- Horace

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

- Henry David Thoreau

Herd immunity is, it turns out, not incredibly easy to understand. It took me quite a bit of reading before I fully grasped it. But understanding herd immunity is essential to understanding why we vaccinate the way we do.

- Eula Biss

I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.

- Eartha Kitt

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

- Bertrand Russell

I don't want to follow the herd.

- Alain Robert