192 Quotes About Consensus

Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.

Truth is the crossroads of perspective.

One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is that 40 percent of the US population does not see why it is a problem, since Christ is returning in a few decades. About the same percentage believe that the world was created a few thousand years ago. If science conflicts with the Bible, so much the worse for science. It would be hard to find an analogue in other societies.

We need an assembly, not for cleverness, but for setting things straight.

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.

I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.

Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed against it and rose superior to the attempt; but such is not the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics; there the body is left free, and the soul is enslaved.