Quotes About Agreement

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.

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

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

You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

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

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

I see no conflict between science and religion. When you take truth in either one of these realms, science or religion, they match perfectly.

Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.

A poet's first contract is with truth.

I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree.

As any two people who have ever dressed in matching pajamas will attest, it was surprisingly effective.

It's a left-brain right-brain thing. People are more agreeable toward people on their left.

The law could bend. If there were lawyers involved, then there was always a deal to be made.

I nodded and made a notation on my legal pad. It read Got you, motherfucker.

called Hector Villabona and confirmed that

Do we have a deal?

collected this myself." "You have my word." "And you have mine." Vance nodded and there did not seem to be anything else to say.

Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.