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| Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with the world; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. |
| by Nelson Goodman |
| Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with the world; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. |
| by Nelson Goodman |
| That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them. |
| by Eric Hoffer |
| Theres nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans. |
| by Malcolm Muggeridge |
| The difficulty about a gentlemens agreement is that it depends on the continued existence of the gentlemen |
| by Reginald Withers Payne |
| There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. |
| by E.B. White |
| Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions. |
| by I Ching |
| The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route. |
| by Herbert Butterfield |
| Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded.... However, they are indispensable when you dont want to do anything. |
| by J.K. Galbraith |
| Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name. |
| by Frank Medlicott |
| The methodological advice to interpret in a way that optimizes agreement should not be conceived as resting on a charitable assumption about human intelligence that might turn out to be false. If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything. |
| by Donald Davidson |
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