"When people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound."

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Source : Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.50, Macmillan

Daniel Kahneman

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Support Quotes

“The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.”
“Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.”
“It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.”
“As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.”
“I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.”
“I'm very careful of not being critical of other people's movies, which work in different styles. I think some of my movies can be interpreted as critical of their subjects.”

Source : "Frederick Wiseman on his new film and his dream of shooting in the White House". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2015.
“Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.”
“I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.”

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