Thomas Gilovich Quotes

#1. You need self-control in an out-of-control world.

James C. Collins

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

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#3. There are so many beautiful, talented souls in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of your potential.

Demi Lovato

#4. 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

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#5. Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.

Pablo Neruda

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

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#7. People are often unaware of their own unawareness

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

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#9. 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.

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#10. You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#11. When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there's something within me that's ready to believe in life after death. And it's not the least bit interested in whether there's any sober evidence for it.

Carl Sagan

#12. 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.

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#13. Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.

Peggy Noonan

#14. The Blu-ray is the real cinematech of world cinema. That's how it's being preserved. All of these guys that are trying to preserve 35mm negatives? They are wasting their time. There are better ways to see and project this stuff. It's called digital.

William Friedkin

#15. I have a kind of respect
a worshipful attitude, even
for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons ...

Sidney Poitier

#16. Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Antonio Porchia

#17. Captain Jack: Rose, you are worth fighting for.
[Jack kisses Rose passionately]
Captain Jack: Wish I'd never met you, Doctor, I was much better off as a coward.
[Jack kisses the Doctor the same way]

Russell T. Davies

#18. 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

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

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

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

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#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.

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#23. When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.

Lindsay Lohan

#24. [My teacher] basically bribed me back into learning with candy and money and what was really remarkable was before very long I had such a respect for her that it sort of re-ignited my desire to learn.

Steve Jobs

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

Thomas Gilovich