Top 13 Illusory Superiority Quotes

#1. It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#2. Your sorrow is yours--truly yours. No one can borrow or share it. No one can carry it for you.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Many people have said to me that I'm a mystic. I find that a bit mysterious. I just use logic and common sense for my philosophies.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#4. When I was growing up, I was an '80s baby, so I remember the Sega Genesis and the first Nintendo. I grew up in a time when we first started playing video games on a computer screen. Now there are headsets and your body's the controller.

Mehcad Brooks

#5. I had not been preaching long before I decided that I would never preach to another segregated audience in any situation over which we had control. This was long before the Supreme Court decision of 1954. I felt this was the Christian position and I could do no other.

Billy Graham

#6. Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?

Aziz Ansari

#7. You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.

Jacqueline Bisset

#8. Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.

Connie Brockway

#9. The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their "gut" when they should be more rational.

Paul Gibbons

#10. The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

Alberto Brandolini

#11. Surprises always await for those with the energy and curiosity to look; so always look. Stay surprised and live forever.

Garry Fitchett

#12. illusory superiority." It is a phenomenon whereby people tend to overemphasize their positive qualities and underemphasize their negative qualities.

Steven Shaer

#13. Happy Cinco de Mayo! It's a holiday that's as respectful of Mexican traditions as Epcot Center's Mexican food pavilion.

Conan O'Brien

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