Causality Quote by Albert Bandura

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

— Plutarch

“Since our brains are adept at finding and drawing conclusions from patterns, it's not surprising that coincidences captivate our attention.”

— David DiSalvo

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in…

— Albert Bandura

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which

— Arthur Koestler

Doesn't believe in coincidences. Things happen for unknown reasons sometimes, and when years pass, we then realize what those reasons were all about.

— Nishan Panwar

What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

— Julian Barnes

“I imagine the feelings of two people meeting again after many years. In the past they spent some time together, and therefore they think…

— Milan Kundera

Have you noticed that when you do something good, no one seems to remember, but when you mess up, no one seems to forget?

— Anonymous

“Memories are often pruned and shaped by an ego-enhancing bias that blurs the edges of past events, softens culpability, and distorts what really happened.”

— Jonathan Gottschall

I'm very familiar with how people can confuse correlation with causation.

— Tim Ferriss

“[...] a good interpretation makes sense of such an impressive amount of mutually corroborating data that coincidence must be excluded. Such a result cannot…

— Y. Duhoux