"Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce……" — Carol Tavris
"Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification."
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11 Quotes by Carol Tavris
Carol Tavris has 11 quotes on this site.
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Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular…
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History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
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In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify…
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In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is…
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During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs…
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Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.
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Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.
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As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.
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The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency…
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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 Armor Quotes
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one of 265 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of…
— William Jennings Bryan
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
— Robert Burns
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Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on…
— Austin Phelps
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When you get up in the morning, you merely put on your clothes. When a colored man gets up in…
— Kristin Hunter
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Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.
— William Blake
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Don't listen to the lies, I swear they all lies. You know I could be your knight in shining Armor…
— Drake
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Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up…
— Ben Stein
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. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible.…
— Patrick Henry
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Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
— Charles Dickens
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Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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What kind of living can be out of fear? Once the armor is dropped you can live out of love,…
— Rajneesh
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A mature person should disconnect himself from anything that is connected with fear. That`s how maturity comes. Just watch all…
— Rajneesh
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