Quotes About Consensus

but fact isn't a democratic process;

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

The best investments are the easiest ones to approve.

Majoritarian is when a majority takes a decision. It is not dictatorship. It is about which issue is major.

On many issues, Jeremy Corbyn and I are in agreement.

The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written; some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98; but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others.

All colours will agree in the dark

modern thought has arrived at an impasse, unable to come to a consensus on what constitutes man and his specific dignity, and consequently unable to define the rights of man.

We are afraid of the unknown, of what is beyond our perception of reality, which is why we buy into consensus reality, pretending to know who and where we are, what is real and unreal. Yet the unknown is waiting for each one of us behind the corner and sooner or later it will prevail. Then, of whom we pretend to be, of where we are, nothing will be left.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

History is fables agreed upon.

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

The majority con- sensus, however, reached eventually was again expressed clearly and forcefully by al-Ghazzâlî: "The knowledge about (ma- rifah) God is the end of every cognition (ma- rifah) and the fruit of every knowledge (or science, - ilm) according to all schools of thought." There is no true knowledge of God for man, but human knowledge can achieve some realization of His being.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

But Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that law was the product of the many. Szeth had been exiled because of the consensus of the many. He had served master after master, most of them using him to attain terrible or at least selfish goals. You could not arrive at excellence by the average of these people. Excellence was an individual quest, not a group effort.

Consider what stuff history is made of, — that for the most part it is merely a story agreed on by posterity.

There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years - that's why we're not together anymore. But there was always a vote. It was always two out of three.

You can't really yell, 'Charge!' and hope to have your team behind you unless they agree that the hill you are trying to take is a hill you should take.

The minority yields to the majority!

What you guys want, I'm for.

With few exceptions, the publishing industry has come to a consensus: if a book has a young protagonist, and if its worldview is primarily interested in the questions that crop up when coming of age, then it's a young adult novel.

But that's the way America rolls nowadays. Consensus, laws and treaties are out. Smug, religion-soaked majoritarianism is in fashion. It is not coincidence that Bible study is returning to American public schools.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.