"Your mistake was not in imagining things you……" — Daniel Gilbert
"Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know—that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating what you imagined as though it were an accurate representation of the facts."
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56 Quotes by Daniel Gilbert
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