"Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in……" — Carol Tavris
"Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts."
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Carol Tavris
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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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Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.
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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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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 Belief Quotes
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
— Richard Bach
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
— Isaac Asimov
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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