"Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence…" — Carol Tavris

"Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is."

— Carol Tavris

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11 Quotes by Carol Tavris

Carol Tavris has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular…
History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify…
In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is…
Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.
During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs…
Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.
As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.
The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency…
Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course…

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More Doubt Quotes

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There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do… — Ibrahim Babangida
I want to state unequivocally for the world, as well as for the markets, as well as for the American… — Michele Bachmann
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with… — Francis Bacon
In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to… — Christian Bale
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. — Hosea Ballou
Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure. — John Banville
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained… — William Barclay
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. — Henry Adams
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to… — John Adams
The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would… — Dave Barry
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend… — Ethel Barrymore

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