Consensus quotes
30 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Here’s someone who says there’s no such thing, it’s all intelligent design. How sure am I of my own views? Don’t take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you’re bound to be okay, because you’re in the safely moral majority."
"I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician."
"Consensus is the absence of leadership."
"Consensus is the negation of leadership."
"Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history."
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"There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth."
"You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus."
"Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?"
"Consensus negates leadership."