Gilovich Quotes

#1. I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut- terin', or about them bein' off their nut.

Jimmy Durante

#2. When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.

Thomas Gilovich

#3. Dreams like podcast. Downloading truth in my ears. They tell me cool stuff.

Rick Riordan

#4. If you're growing, you're likely failing. If you're not failing, you're likely not growing.

Eric Greitens

#5. But, when it comes to global warming, the public- at-large really doesn't know whom to believe anymore. And NASA has contributed to that confusion.

Walter Cunningham

#6. But you're forgetting that my expectations are much higher than yours.

Candace Knoebel

#7. We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient, however, in evaluating and testing our ideas once they are formed

Thomas Gilovich

#8. We believe certain things because they ought to be true.

Thomas Gilovich

#9. People are often unaware of their own unawareness

Thomas Gilovich

#10. We may be particularly inclined to acquire and retain beliefs that make us feel good.

Thomas Gilovich

#11. Often when we get to know someone whose words and deeds were off-putting, once we get a better sense of how that person is understanding events, our dislike dissipates.

Thomas Gilovich

#12. There was a time when I could only relate to happy works. With time, my taste has evolved.

Tina Ambani

#13. You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.

Tippi Hedren

#14. We must recognize that our view of the world is just that - a view that has been shaped by our own vantage point, history, and idiosyncratic knowledge.

Thomas Gilovich

#15. Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!

Evelyn Underhill

#16. I actually like getting up to blue skies.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

#17. People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence

Thomas Gilovich

#18. For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, "Can I believe this?", but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, "Must I believe this?

Thomas Gilovich

#19. I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil
religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural or the elegant abstract solution! Both have bathed this earth in suffering; both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees.

Anne Rice

#20. We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Thomas Gilovich

#21. What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe

Thomas Gilovich

#22. Because so much disagreement remains hidden, our beliefs are not properly shaped by healthy scrutiny and debate. The absence of such argument also leads us to exaggerate the extent to which other people believe the way we do.

Thomas Gilovich

#23. We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.

Thomas Gilovich