Anecdotes Quote by Steven Pinker

“One of the main reasons we’re so affected by our negative thoughts is that we think our mind has an accurate grasp on reality,…

— OliviaFox Cabane

“People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold…

— Thomas Gilovich

“Not only are we subject to cognitive biases, we also frequently seek out things that reinforce them. We interpret facts through the prism of…

— Jean Tirole

When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for…

— Leonard Mlodinow

“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

“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

“Cognitive bias will maintain their belief in the impossible long after the facts have been made clear to them. Only when confronted with impending…

— David VanDyke

“Memories are often pruned and shaped by an ego-enhancing bias that blurs the edges of past events, softens culpability, and distorts what really happened.”

— Jonathan Gottschall

Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the reality of…

— Anonymous

“We view memories as archives of past events—of what has actually happened. But in reality, memories are nothing more than descriptions of what we…

— Mo Gawdat

The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good

— Friedrich Nietzsche