Quote by Thomas Gilovich Download Open image ““confirmatory events are in fact much more memorable than non-confirmatory events.”” — Thomas Gilovich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Our responses to events are far more significant than the events themselves” — Sarah Napthali Copy Share Image
“If I can't be sure of the actual events any more, I can at least be true to the impressions those facts left.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“You can’t invent a historically memorable event, unless it really happened.” — Shulem Deen Copy Share Image
“Too often, an event’s importance is not recognized until it is too late for proper recording.” — Benoît B. Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“History often has a difficult time catching up to the events it records.” — Ladislas Farago Copy Share Image
“Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about?” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I know that history is going to be dominated by an improbable event, I just don’t know what that event will be.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“When you're living through them, events are nothing more than stuff that happens. You're not thinking about significance. Significance only comes when you look… — James Howe Copy Share Image
“I don’t really think it would be in my best interest to disclose the events that took place today,” — R.L. Mathewson Copy Share Image
“Chapter 7 takes a psychological truism, “we tend to believe what we think others believe” and turns it around: We tend to think others… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“As part of this research, one group of participants was asked which two countries are more similar to one another, East Germany and West… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“Finally, it has been shown that the tendency for people to think of themselves as above average is reduced—even for ambiguous traits—when people are… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“It appears that the probabilistic sciences of psychology and medicine teach their students to apply statistical and methodological rules to both scientific and everyday-life… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“To live, it seems, is to explain, to justify, and to find coherence among diverse outcomes, characteristics, and causes.” — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“social psychologist Ziva Kunda, who argues that people are indeed more likely to believe things they want to believe, but that their capacity to… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient,… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“our difficulty in accurately recognizing random arrangements of events can lead us to believe things that are not true—to believe something is systematic, ordered,… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“We therefore should be more skeptical than we seem to be about evidence presented to us secondhand. We should become accustomed to asking ourselves… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“In other words, when testing a hypothesis of similarity, people look for evidence of similarity rather than dissimilarity, and when testing a hypothesis of… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“develop the habit of employing one of several “consider the opposite” strategies. We can learn to ask ourselves, for example, “Suppose the exact opposite… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
