Quotes About Consensus

I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.

If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely.

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.

If there is one thing we need to avoid, it is competition between E.U. institutions.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it

En lo único que a primera vista todos estamos de acuerdo, es que no estamos de acuerdo con todos.

What had been lost in the financial crisis and the leadership transition was trust, and it was a steep price to pay. Without trust, you can't have the kind of culture that Reell once had. For that matter, you can't be a small giant without trust. Once you've lost it, moreover, it's extremely difficult to get back—especially if you lack consensus about the source of the problem and alignment around a course to follow.

The consensus in Orlando seems to be that the main entrance to Disney World is the broad interstate-type road that runs off US 192. This is called the Maingate.

It may feel less secure than if everyone agrees on what is true, but the feeling of security is just that - a feeling, not the real thing. Less secure is often more reliable.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

But my dear Crito, why should we care so much about what the majority think?

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

Truth is not arrived at by majority vote.

One must not mistake majority for truth.

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

Wikipedia works because those who know the truth are usually more numerous and committed than those who believe in a falsehood.

Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.

I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important...what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane