Challenges Quote by Tristan Harris

It’s been very well demonstrated that our belief system effects how we behave and how we perform. . . It also effects our lifestyle,…

— Edgar Mitchell

“Confronting information that directly challenges existing beliefs can be psychologically threatening to people, especially if the information challenges their sense of identity.”

— Rachel Hilary Brown

“From our behavior, we obtain certain results, and these results reinforce our beliefs.”

— David W. Earle LPC

“Confirmation bias is our innate tendency to pay more attention to information that confirms our beliefs.[”

— Cindy Alvarez

When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to…

— Thomas Gilovich

Everything that happens in our lives is "good information" about the degree to which our choices are working for us. We can, however, choose…

— Bill Crawford

“When people have the opportunity to collect information from the world, they are more likely to select information that supports their preexisting attitudes, beliefs,…

— Chip Heath

“The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking - all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe.”

— Valerie Tarico

We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our…

— Kyle Hill

“Our motivations thus influence our beliefs through the subtle ways we choose a comforting pattern from the fabric of evidence.”

— Thomas Gilovich

Our beliefs do not sit passively in our brains waiting to be confirmed or contradicted by incoming information. Instead, they play a key role…

— Richard Wiseman

Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.

— Joseph O'Connor