False Consensus

Famous quotes containing the words false and/or consensus:

    “Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.”
    —Josiah Royce (1855–1916)