Quote by Thomas Gilovich

“It's irrelevant whether what one says is true or false: both will be contradicted.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Failure to consider alternatives fully is the most common cause of flawed or incomplete analysis.”

— Morgan D. Jones

“difficult conversations are almost never about getting the facts right. They are about conflicting perceptions, interpretations, and values.”

— Douglas Stone

“Failure to understand the context in which correlations are observed leads to false conclusions. The”

— Mervyn King

“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.

— Halton Arp

“Paradox reconciles all contradictions.”

— Patrick Leigh Fermor

“There is almost no human action or decision that cannot be made to look flawed and less sensible in the misleading light of hindsight.…

— Sidney Dekker

“Once a structurally complete and closed system of opinions consisting of many details and relations has been formed, it offers enduring resistance to anything…

— Ludwik Fleck

“We . . . go out into the Waste Land of Experts, each knowing so much about so little that he can neither be…

— G.M. Young

“Explicit disagreement is better than implicit misunderstanding.”

— Douglas Stone

“Facts are important, but the story matters. Poorly presented facts can even get in the way of the story’s impact.”

— Blake Mycoskie