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Quotes about Consensus

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the regent's axiom: a leader, he said is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, to realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
- Nelson Mandela
If people don't weigh in, they can't buy in.
- Patrick Lencioni
So they said, “We will call the girl and ask her opinion.”
- Genesis 24:57
This proposal seemed good to Absalom and all the elders of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 17:4
And because this proposal seemed right to all the people, the whole assembly agreed to it.
- 1 Chronicles 13:4
And the whole assembly responded in a loud voice: “Truly we must do as you say!
- Ezra 10:12
Can two walk together without agreeing where to go?
- Amos 3:3
But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’
- Matthew 18:16
The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written:
- Acts 15:15
I urge Euodia and Syntyche to agree with each other in the Lord.
- Philippians 4:2
there cannot be alignment deeper in the organization, even when employees want to cooperate, if the leaders at the top aren't in lockstep with one another
- Patrick Lencioni