Consensus Quotes
Initial uniformity can be deceiving, warns the author, because parties arrive at that state from so many different motives which will be exposed over time.
Historically, the coupling of president and Speaker has been a tricky one that encourages a choreography both quick-footed and wary
The cognitive science's challenge is to link our consensus reality to our internal reality, but physics' challenge is to link our consensus reality to our external reality.
Life in society requires consensus as an indispensable condition. But consensus, to be productive, requires that each individual contribute independently out of of his experience and insight.
A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.
Alexander Hamilton reflected as early as the middle of the Revolutionary War that rallying at the last minute was part of the national character of his countrymen.
To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.
In ambiguous situations, it's a good bet that the crowd will generally stick together – and be wrong.
Human nature was structured through the eons.What our environment of persistent scarcity has done to us during all that time is undeniable
This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit of Geoffrey's ideas about anatomical unity.
Law, rather than harnessing the passions, is increasingly pressed into their service.
If anyone does not understand you, just go for consensus. If not, do not move further, the solution is, just abandon it.
The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country.
If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I guess there can't be a meeting of minds.