A Quote by Abba Eban

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

Abba Eban

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Abba Eban
Israeli - Diplomat
February 2, 1915 - November 17, 2002

Anyone who believes that we can afford collectively what we cannot afford individually is delusional.

Arnold Kling

It's important everyone knows their roles individually and collectively as a group.

Jordan Henderson

Finally, 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.

Michael Crichton

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

Michael Crichton

I have this idea of a Taiwan Consensus, which means people in Taiwan have to get together and form a consensus of their own and that they turn around to talk to the Chinese to form a cross-strait consensus so we can build a relationship on that consensus. And in my view, that is the right order to do things.

Tsai Ing-wen

I could say that in the essay, as it has developed historically, success is determined by the writer's ability to express, through an individual voice, a collective experience - you are speaking individually but you are representing collectively.

Vijay Seshadri

The primary means-of-reviva l that everyone agrees upon is extraordinary prayer.

Timothy Keller

The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

Michael Crichton

There is the potential for dreams to come true, for records to be broken, and medals to be won, and at this time everyone believes that they individually have the potential to make their dream a reality.

Elana Meyers

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet.

Nhat Hanh

As we awaken individually, we will act more powerfully collectively.

Marianne Williamson

Collectively and individually fielding is largely a matter of thoughts and discipline.

Ian Peebles

The ant is a collectively intelligent and individually stupid animal; man is the opposite.

Karl von Frisch

What we're calling 'presencing' is possible because of this womb, where the absolute and the manifest interact. I think a buddhist would say that presencing can arise to the extent that we develop the capacity, individually and collectively, to extend our conscious awareness in both domains.