"Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations."

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Source : "Skeptics' Guide to the Universe" Podcast #285, www.sgutranscripts.org. December 29, 2010.

Steven Novella

#Emotional Quotes #Comforting Quotes #Psychology Quotes

“Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.”
“Unbelievers enjoy the security of their unbelief; there is great confidence in ignorance.”
“Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.”

Source : Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Wassily Kandinsky (Illustrated)”, p.419, Delphi Classics
“If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."”
“Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.”
“For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.”

Source : "Religion, Science and the Ultimate Nature of Reality" by Marilynne Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2010.
“Your faith is only as strong as the test it survives”

Source : Myles Munroe (2009). “Rediscovering Faith: Understanding the Nature of Kingdom Living”, p.24, Destiny Image Publishers
“I guess that one of the most important things I've learned is that nothing is ever completely bad. Even cancer. It has made me a better person. It has given me courage and a sense of purpose I never had before. But you don't have to do like I did...wait until you lose a leg or get some awful disease, before you take the time to find out what kind of stuff you're really made of. You can start now. Anybody can.”

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