Quotes About Belief

when we are uncertain, we are willing to place an enormous amount of trust in the collective knowledge of the crowd.

Bad social proof in this situation. Temporarily disconnect automatic pilot.

the principle of social proof. It states that one means we use to determine what is correct is to find out what other people think is correct.

The researchers thought that recipients of precise offers are much more likely to believe that the person making that offer has invested time and effort preparing for the negotiation and therefore has very good reasons to support the precise offer they are making.

patsy. For as long as I can recall, I've been an easy mark

All this has important implications for rearing children. It suggests that we should never heavily bribe or threaten our children to do the things we want them truly to believe in.

Actually he wrote, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." For some obscure reason, a central distinction had been lost as the years eroded the accurate version of his statement to mean something entirely different and, upon close inspection, entirely silly.44

automatic-pilot device, like social proof, should never be trusted fully;

Aunque para la mayoría de nosotros esta posibilidad parece remota, puede ser más real de lo que creemos. La idea de que no se puede persuadir a ninguna persona inocente a confesar un crimen, en especial uno de gravedad, es errónea. Y, de hecho, ocurre con una frecuencia perturbadora.

Obviously, horse-race bettors are not alone in their willingness to believe in the correctness of a difficult choice, once made.

No doubt this is often the case.

es una vieja máxima de las escuelas / que la adulación es el alimento de los tontos».

Em condições normais, você torce por seu sexo, sua cultura, sua localidade [...] e o que você quer provar é que você é melhor do que a outra pessoa. Seja quem for a pessoa por quem você torce, ela representa você; e quando vence, você vence.

As Samuel Butler wrote more than 300 years ago, "He who agrees against his will / Is of the same opinion still.

The threat to capitalism is no longer communism or fascism but a steady undermining of the trust modern societies need for growth and stability. When most people stop believing they and their children have a fair chance to make it, the tacit social contract societies rely on for voluntary cooperation begins to unravel. In its place comes subversion, small and large—petty theft, cheating, fraud, kickbacks, corruption. Economic resources gradually shift from production to protection.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

there is no one, but no one, more gullible than a psychiatrist)

One of Barron's maxims is "The sure sign that God is alive in you is joy.

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But in the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, this stunning truth is revealed: God is not on the side of the

An aggressive reason that seeks always to grasp on its own terms will never come to know deeper dimensions of reality, including and especially the personal. Such depths can be plumbed only through something like a faith that accepts and receives.

To believe in God is sinful. Only those who KNOW God are without sin. John 10:15

So much of what folks want in the world turns out to be just a thing they say. Words change the way you feel for a small time and that just about goes as far as it can go toward being a true thing.

It is not so much by any power inherent in himself that the magician works, as by the ductility of that material of gaping credulity upon which he operates.