Thomas Jefferson Quotes

But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.

Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!

On no question can a perfect unanimity be hoped.

The truth is that nobody agrees with anybody 100 percent of the time.

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.

I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis.

When you agree with someone, you tend not to talk about it for too long.

A misconception remains a misconception, even when it is shared by the majority of people.

Insofar as it represents a genuine conciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents the concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure.

If we can’t agree on the facts, how can we agree on the solutions?

[…] the opposite of not wrong isn’t necessarily right.

I can't force people to agree with me.

You can't expect everyone to agree with you.

Having three kids at home is sometimes like dealing with Democrats and Republicans when you're choosing a restaurant.

Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.

Not everyone will always agree with me.

Some say no when others say yes. That's the difficulty with handball.

I spend a lot of time bathing in a glow of consensus, but you have to be willing to say something to people who might not agree with you and take the consequences of what follows.

Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.

We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do.

A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.