Assumption Quote by Daniel Kahneman

The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware…

— Stefan Zweig

The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.

— Mason Cooley

“Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind’s equivalent of feeding, fighting, and…

— Barry Eisler

Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects,…

— Samuel Johnson

The truth is that our unconscious minds are active, purposeful, and independent. Hidden they may be, but their effects are anything but, for they…

— Leonard Mlodinow

“In other words, it requires deliberate self-deception, including a constant effort to repress or block out unpleasant possibilities and 'negative' thoughts. The truly self-confident,…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“The mind has the Propensity to Excel along the Path of least resistance thereby ostracising other equally important "concepts" It is this lack of…

— Archibald Gumiro

Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds,…

— Madame de Stael

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

— Albert Ellis

“Aggression, Violence, Exploitation, Depression, Despair, Prejudice, War, Intolerance, Poverty, Are all a result of a misunderstanding of the nature of Self.”

— Shoryu Bradley

“People are hurt and afraid at a subtle psychological level—and are therefore self-absorbed, incapable of taking on larger perspectives and incapable of acting upon…

— Hanzi Freinacht

Most persons spend their lives stuck in relatively low states of mind. In these states of mind their views of themselves and the world…

— Frederick Lenz