Cognitive Bias Quotes

"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires." "He that is giddy thinks the world turns round." "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." "Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish" "We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events" "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." "It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves" "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right" "People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive" "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" "The fooled-by-randomness effect applies to both the forecasters and those misled by their forecasts" "The way we see the problem is the problem."