Quotes About Loftus

#1. Zealous conviction is a dangerous substitute for an open mind. - Author: Elizabeth F. Loftus

#2. I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress ... ? No. It's not something for me. - Author: Diane Kruger

#3. The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information. - Author: Alan Moore

#4. Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one. - Author: Elizabeth Loftus

#5. We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories, - Author: Elizabeth Loftus

#6. And are they consistent with the injuries inflicted by the electric chair, with - Author: Patricia Cornwell

#7. Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing. - Author: Elizabeth Loftus

#8. I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre ... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week. - Author: Lana Parrilla

#9. How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God. - Author: Lottie Moon

#10. The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts of wierd theories to explain away our gaps in knowledge. - Author: Donald Woods Winnicott

#11. Most of the time, perhaps 99 percent of the time, the defendant is guilty; his screams are the final protest of a human being about to lost his most precious possession, his freedom. - Author: Elizabeth F. Loftus

#12. In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened. - Author: Elizabeth Loftus

#13. Steadfast Seas and MountainsThe lofty mountains and the seas, Being mountains, being seas, Both exist and are real. But frail as flowers are the lives of men, Passing phantoms of this world. - Author: Reiko Chiba

#14. We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way. - Author: Elizabeth Loftus

#15. Challenges and Changes are part of Life, accept them and move on. - Author: I Love The Way You Love Me

#16. The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories. - Author: Richard Dawkins

#17. Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too. - Author: Elizabeth Loftus

#18. When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction. - Author: Elizabeth Loftus

#19. To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything. - Author: Elizabeth Loftus

#20. My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could be generous and say maybe this is a false memory. - Author: Elizabeth Loftus