Quote by Thomas Gilovich Download Open image “We are the sum total of our experiences.” — Thomas Gilovich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
I like to think we're all the sum of our experiences, so no one has my perspective. — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us. — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
Every experience that we have is unique to us because at some deep level we make an interpretation of it. — Deepak Chopra 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
