False Consensus

Famous quotes containing the words false and/or consensus:

“There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“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)