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Cognitive bias Quotes

"Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish"

"We've moved away from reason and logic."

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right"

"A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason"

"The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making."

"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."

"People only see what they are prepared to see "

"The way we see the problem is the problem."

"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round."

"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them"

"Sometimes we see the world as we are, not as it is"

"It is not the estimate you make that matters but the error you make in even thinking you can estimate"

"It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves"

"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

"We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events"

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