Majority and Minority
In abstruse matters the minority always sees better than the majority, while the majority sees better in things that are evident. It is absurd in questions of metaphysics to bring into play what is called the general consensus, and no one attaches any importance to that consensus in physical matters, which are subject to the senses, as for example in the matter of the movement of the earth, and a thousand others. On the contrary, however, it is a thing which is foolhardy, dangerous, and in the long run useless, to oppose the opinion of the majority in civil affairs.
Giacomo Leopardi, in 'Thoughts'