Belief Quote by Jon Winokur Download Open image “PRONOIA: The irrational belief that people like you” — Jon Winokur ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Belief Faith Irrational Like you People
“how easily people can zealously pursue and defend a point of view, often ignoring inconvenient facts that interfere with their desired belief structure. I” — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
“The over-whelming preponderance of people have not freely decided what to believe, but, rather, have been socially conditioned (indoctrinated) into their beliefs. They are… — Richard Paul Copy Share Image
“Look into the irrationality closely, with a determination not to respect it, and not to let it dominate you. Whenever it thrusts foolish thoughts… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It may be laid down broadly that irrationalism, i.e. disbelief in objective fact, arises almost always from the desire to assert something for which… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“When like-minded people argue, all they do is provide each other with new reasons supporting already held beliefs. Just like solitary reasoners, groups of… — Hugo Mercier & Dan Sperber Copy Share Image
Being who you are means owning your own mind, having likes and dislikes, opinions that are your own. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“We hold many dubious beliefs, in other words, not because they satisfy some important psychological need, but because they seem to be the most… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Belief is the unmitigated, simplest form of mental representation. It’s a psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be… — Michael Khatkar Copy Share Image
“It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute to the… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“GRUBELEIEN: German word for a not entirely unpleasant form of brooding; a sort of inward directed schadenfreude, i.e., perverse delight in one's own troubles” — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
I see therapy as a substitute for friendship. I see it as a commentary on the impersonality of society that people have to pay… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
“DEFENSE PESSIMISM: According to psychologist Julie Norem, positive thinking doesn't work for some people, who should try defensive pessimism. Here's how it works: in… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
“HOLLOW-TOOTH SYNDROME: Compulsion to torture oneself mentally, based on the fact that nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
“BYSTANDER EFFECT: Phenomenon documented by social scientists in which people are less likely to help someone in distress when there are others present who… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
“TUCKE DES OBJEKTS, DIE: Literally "the malice of things," the sneaking dread that machines are biding their time until they can turn on us… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
“NOCEBO: Latin for "I will harm"; a negative placebo; physical manifestation of pessimism; self-fulfilling prophecy of disbelief. In the nocebo effect, a bad result… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
“KVETCH:(Yiddish) verb: to gripe or fret; noun: a chronic complainer, a whiner” — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
To a dog, motoring isn't just a way of getting from here to there, it's also a thrill and an adventure. The mere jingle… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
“SITUATIONAL INTIMACY: Intimacy generated by a shared situation rather than a romantic or familial relationship, as when random train or airliner seatmates share their… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
They give unconditional love and undying loyalty in return for regular meals and an occasional pat on the head. — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
“Cine a ucis stelele? Cine a surpat drumul spre viitor al celor din morminte?” — Ionel Teodoreanu Copy Share Image
“MIND & GRIND Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
It took me 20 years of hard training to get the physique I have today. what you need is what i had - BELIEF… — Branch Warren Copy Share Image
“Here is a fundamental difference between the man of faith and the man of unbelief. The unbeliever is 'of the world', judges everything by… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“Rigid traditions capture souls prisons of spiritual thought man’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.” — David W Earle Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
