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Illusions Quotes by Steven Pinker
- It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible.
- Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid…
More Illusions Quotes
- He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. — Giotto di Bondone
- We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by… — Daniel J. Boorstin
- Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. — Elizabeth Bowen
- I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions. — Taylor Caldwell
- I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. — Paul Cezanne
- Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. — Jack Kornfield
- You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the… — Barry Lopez