Calculus Quote by Carol Tavris

No one seems to have learned, or can remember, the magic words that calm people when they are frightened or threatened: "I'm sorry; I…

— Carol Tavris

When anger is not trampling roughshod through our nervous system, it is sitting sullenly in some unspecified internal organ. "She's got a lot of…

— Carol Tavris

During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they hug a…

— Carol Tavris

“Consider the famous syllogism “All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore Socrates is mortal.” So far, so good. But just because all…

— Carol Tavris

The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice and remember…

— Carol Tavris

“What, then, was the new strategy he proposed? More troops and more money. For him, any other option was unthinkable. It would mean he…

— Carol Tavris

“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. —historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle”

— Carol Tavris

The individualism of American life, to our glory and despair, creates anger and encourages its release; for when everything is possible, limitations are irksome.…

— Carol Tavris

Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.

— Carol Tavris

“Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify…

— Carol Tavris

The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'

— Carol Tavris

A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.

— Carol Tavris