Elliot Aronson Quotes

#1. 57 But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Anonymous

#2. Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.

Elliot Aronson

#3. We need to challenge our own thinking.

Elliot Aronson

#4. There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.

Walter Savage Landor

#5. Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.

Elizabeth Prentiss

#6. It is possible to achieve mastery of a problem or a skill without hurting another person or even without attempting to conquer.

Elliot Aronson

#7. The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone.

Elliot Aronson

#8. The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. A doctor to whom I occasionally talk suggest that I have made an inadequate adjustment to aging.
Wrong, I want to say.
In fact I have made no adjustment whatsoever to aging.
In fact I had lived my entire life to date without seriously believing that I would age.

Joan Didion

#10. Close your mouth, Nicole! You may never speak words again for as long as you live!

Jennifer DeLucy

#11. The happiest people I know live lives that revolve around serving others, not themselves.

Tim Elmore

#12. Aronson's first law:

People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.

Elliot Aronson

#13. O singers, resinous and soft your songsAbove the sacred whisper of the pines,Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.

Jean Toomer

#14. In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.

Eric Schmidt

#15. The ultra distance forgives injury, fatigue, bad form, and illness. A bear with determination will defeat a dreamy gazelle every time.

Scott Jurek

#16. Self-justification, therefore, is not only about protecting high self-esteem; it's also about protecting low self-esteem if that is how a person sees himself.

Elliot Aronson

#17. Now, what's stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history.

Laurie Perez

#18. What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat)
I write romance novels. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#19. Science is a form of arrogance control.

Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson