Thomas Gilovich quotes

“When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas evidence that contradicts them is critically scrutinized and discounted. Our beliefs may thus be less responsive than they should to the implications of new information”
-- Thomas Gilovich

Source : Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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“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

Source : Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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“What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe”
-- Thomas Gilovich

Source : Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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“We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.”
-- Thomas Gilovich

Source : Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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“When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.”
-- Thomas Gilovich

Source : Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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“For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, “Can I believe this?”, but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, “Must I believe this?”
-- Thomas Gilovich

Source : Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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“We are the sum total of our experiences.”
-- Thomas Gilovich

Source : "The Science Of Why You Should Spend Your Money On Experiences, Not Things" by Jay Cassano, www.fastcompany.com. March 30, 2015.

“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

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“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”

“There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.”

“Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.”

“Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?”

“Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them”

Source : A.J Cronin (1942). “the Keys of the Kingdom”

“We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.”

“All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.”

“Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'”