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Most Of Our So-called Reasoning Consists In Finding Arguments For Going On Believing As We Already Do.
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Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on
believing as we already do.
-- James Harvey Robinson, The Mind in the Making
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We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own.
-- James Harvey Robinso...
Creative intelligence in its various forms and activities is what makes man.
-- James Harvey Robinso...
My mother told me, "Elwood,"--she always called me "Elwood"--"in this world you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.
Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant....
Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake.
We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. -- William Jame...
Marriages are based on believing you won the arguments.
The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes.
We shall see them doing so upon our television sets. -- C.P. Snow...
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
-- Albert Einstei...
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it.
Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin....