Quotes About Cognitive Bias

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

Paul Gibbons

#2. Pigpen and Dust chuckle, but the rest of the patrons take an intense interest in their food or menu.

Katie McGarry

#3. If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.

Penn Jillette

#4. 16Jesus repeatedly left the crowds, though, stealing away into the wilderness to pray.

Anonymous

#5. Viewed as a whole, the relevant research by cognitive and social psychologists to date suggests that racial bias in the drug war was inevitable, once a public consensus was constructed by political and media elites that drug crime is black and brown.

Michelle Alexander

#6. The state of health is a state of nonsensation, even nonreality. As soon as we cease to suffer, we cease to exist.

Emil Cioran

#7. A compelling narrative fosters an illusion of inevitability.

Daniel Kahneman

#8. In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow!

Rufus Wainwright

#9. I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.

Tamsin Egerton

#10. There is only one universal passion fear.

George Bernard Shaw

#11. In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret new information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions and avoids information and interpretations that contradict prior beliefs.

Jenny Offill

#12. Liszt was a bit of a rock and roller at heart, but he was a bit of a puritan on his sounds.

Rick Wakeman

#13. One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.

Iain M. Banks

#14. Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.

William James

#15. It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#16. Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life.
Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.

Gayle Forman

#17. Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.

Janine Benyus

#18. Then you ask: what, within this cosmos, is the opposite of a vampire? The answer is obvious. The opposite of a vampire is a werewolf.

David Graeber

#19. Creative ideas make people uncomfortable. It turns out that, at least subconsciously, we can have a hard time recognizing ideas as both new and useful at the same time. This cognitive dissonance between creativity and practicality may actually create a subtle bias against creative ideas.

David Burkus

#20. When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

Dallas Willard