Cigar Quote by Rudyard Kipling

“People can fall into habitual programmed patterns of thinking, underpinned by long-held beliefs and blind acceptance of conventional wisdom. Lying beneath such surface thoughts…

— Mark Ireland

“Apathetics: Assume their perception of reality is “true” and they unquestioningly filter information through these preconceived ideas.”

— Jonathan Heston

Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?

— Confucius

People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they…

— Joseph Butler

“People who learn some correct detail about another person's life at once draw conclusions from it which are not accurate, and see in the…

— Marcel Proust

Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“We judge one another by our outward actions, but in the motive underlying those actions our judgment may be widely at fault. Preoccupied by…

— The Detection Club

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 intentions of people are easy to reveal by simply knowing when their statements are indirect.

— Luke Garner

“Psychologists call this natural tendency to be selective in both our memory and our perception confirmation bias. People with strong convictions often take confirmation…

— Robert Carroll

Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and…

— Hippocrates

“Many times we take our cue from the people around us. How are they acting? What are they doing? We automatically assume that they…

— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D