Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky Download Open image ““when something feels good, that, alas, makes us want to believe it all the more.”” — Eliezer Yudkowsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It's sad that sometimes we let ourselves believe that if it's not bad, it must be good.” — Julie Murphy Copy Share Image
“It feels like we’re holding on to something because we want to believe it,” — Olen Steinhauer Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.” — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
“please believe that things are good with me, and even when they’re not, they will be soon enough.” — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“Whatever belief we have actually stems from the thankfulness that we feel and this feeling further attracts more happy feelings towards us.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
“With anything that would make things better, believe as much as you can—then believe a little more.” — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we want something to be true so badly that we convince ourselves that it is true.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“The number one reason we don't believe things that are true is because they don't always feel true.” — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
“I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“The funny thing about having people believe good things about you is that, without even realizing it, you want to make those things true.” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“If we feel good, we can keep going in the direction of the reality we’re creating. If we don’t feel good, we may reflect… — Alaric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“But I really am Ravenclaw, you know, not Slytherin. I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“If you regard evidence as a constraint and seek to free yourself, you sell yourself into the chains of your whims. For you cannot… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“I am not sure how to explain it, except that - truth matters to us.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“He really really really shouldn't have done that. Amazing how much more obvious that became one second after it was too late.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“There’s a technique we use in our local rationalist cluster called “Is That Your True Rejection?”, and it works like this: Before you stake… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Knowing that Draco's hopeful face had probably been drilled into him by months of practice did not make it any less effective, Harry observed.… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won't sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds transfer. The… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
