Quotes About Consensus

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

If we can't agree on objective truth, then how are we ever going to agree on opinions?

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

It both surprised and angered me that {they} had reached a consensus of agreement against me. The way I looked at the world, enemies criticized and friends affirmed.

they will have come to the same conclusions you've arrived at and the conversation will be a much more positive one.

que los puntos en que diferimos son pocos y los puntos en que convenimos son muchos, y que si tenemos la paciencia y la franqueza y el deseo necesario para ponernos de acuerdo, a ello llegaremos.

Ultimately what rules in a discipline today is the social pressure of the best professional opinion, and that changes.

Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.

Dialogue is always more important than consensus.

When science offers an answer, that answer is universal. Humans do not go to war over it; they rally around it.

History is but a fable agreed upon

Authoritative leaders mobilize people toward a vision. Affiliative leaders create emotional bonds and harmony. Democratic leaders build consensus through participation. Pacesetting leaders expect excellence and self- direction. Coaching leaders develop people for the future. And coercive leaders demand immediate compliance.

Coercive leaders demand immediate compliance. Authoritative leaders mobilize people toward a vision. Affiliative leaders create emotional bonds and harmony. Democratic leaders build consensus through participation. Pacesetting leaders expect excellence and self-direction. And coaching leaders develop people for the future.

All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at least four billion years.

The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

Voting represented no rational process, but was simply traditional in certain societies for obtaining consensus and expressing the will of a group. The vote expressed more about the committee or college than it did about the elected person.

Compromise is like the old joke, "A camel is a horse made by a committee.

To diagnose whether your colleagues have created real or sham options, poll them for their preferences. If there's disagreement, that's a great sign that you have real options. An easy consensus may be a red flag.

Sometimes we think we're gathering information when we're actually fishing for support.

Defense lawyers had sought to have the bite-mark evidence barred from the trial on the grounds that it is scientifically unreliable. The judge's ruling was "contrary to the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community," said Chris Fabricant, director of strategic litigation for the Innocence Project. "It's a victory for the Flat Earth Society."

but the consensus in Washington was that trade and investment would encourage China to become a "responsible stakeholder" of the international system, as influential diplomat Robert Zoellick put it.

new mainstream consensus emerged around the idea that the Vietnam War had primarily been an American tragedy that had badly wounded and divided the nation. The focus was on healing, not history.