"We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true."

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Source : Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

Thomas Gilovich

#True Friend Quotes #Support Quotes #Want Quotes

“The White House announced plans to begin normalizing relations with Cuba - this as we're awkwardizing relations with Russia.”
“The environment and support is one of a kind! A zero judgement, safe place to discuss and achieve goals!”
“Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.”
“I burn a lot of stuff. My son, bless his heart, eats it anyway. But he makes a face!”
“Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.”
“I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.”
“Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of electromagnetics, in spite of the abstract nature of its theory, involving quantities whose nature is entirely unknown at the present, is really and truly founded on the observations of real Newtonian forces, electric and magnetic respectively.”

Source : Oliver Heaviside (2003). “Electromagnetic Theory”, p.9, American Mathematical Soc.
“To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.”

Source : George Jean Nathan (1972). “The World in Falseface”, p.7, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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