Being true Quote by Thomas Gilovich Download Open image “We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.” — Thomas Gilovich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being true Family Opinion Support True friend Want
Studies show that when we vocalize an opinion, whether or not we believe it to be true, in time we usually come to support… — David J. Lieberman Copy Share Image
The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
People can hold any opinion that they want on any subject that they choose. Just don't proactively lie to people. It's a simple request,… — Steven Crowder Copy Share Image
Sometimes in our quest for the reasons to how and why, we will seek out those answers that would support our initial argument or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Inevitably our opinions cover a bigger space, a longer reach of time, a greater number of things, than we can directly observe. They have,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
If our core belief is based on what other people think, then we eventually will allow their opinions to become our reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“People prefer opinions to truth. They try to bend the world to fit their assumptions, instead of changing their assumptions to fit the world.… — Elizabeth C. Mock Copy Share Image
“A second way in which our motives influence the kind of evidence we entertain involves whose opinions, expert or otherwise, we consult. We can… — Thomas Gilovich 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
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad,… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Intuitionists think that there are cases in which, say, some identity statement between real numbers is neither true nor false, even though we know… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I learned a tremendous amount about what was important to me as a head coach in that I was not in charge. I didn't… — Pete Carroll Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true. — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
