"Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly……" — Daniel Gilbert

"Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished."

56 Quotes by Daniel Gilbert

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The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral…
Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not…
Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the…
The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will.…
The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room,…
What’s so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do…
Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won?…
In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths…
People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to…
We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things…
When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set…
We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our…

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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is… — Karen Armstrong
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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the… — David Attenborough
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men,… — Mikhail Bakunin
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the… — James A. Baldwin
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac
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