Quotes About Beliefs

We focus on our goal, anchor on our plan, and neglect relevant base rates, exposing ourselves to the planning fallacy. We focus on what we want to do and can do, neglecting the plans and skills of others. Both in explaining the past and in predicting the future, we focus on the causal role of skill and neglect the role of luck. We are therefore prone to an illusion of control. We focus on what we know and neglect what we do not know, which makes us overly confident in our beliefs.

A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or of any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.

System 1 continuously generates suggestions for System 2: impressions, intuitions, intentions, and feelings. If endorsed by System 2, impressions and intuitions turn into beliefs, and impulses turn into voluntary actions. When all goes smoothly, which is most of the time, System 2 adopts the suggestions of System 1 with little or no modification.

The only test of rationality is not whether a person's beliefs and preferences are reasonable, but whether they are internally consistent.

I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.

All religious believers should be licensed to make sure that they are competent to hold opinions and viewpoints and that they don't believe in just any old thing, such as creationism or a flat tax.

Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have.

It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations.

Many teachers seem to believe their opinions are right, and therefore, all other viewpoints are wrong. And they are indoctrinating our children with their beliefs.

My parents are conservatives. Owning a small business lent itself to that viewpoint.

I have my own political views and ideologies, but will not enter politics for sure.

What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.

Your political views really denote your spiritual views.

I am a firm supporter of the First Amendment, no matter the views expressed.

Your political views should be your political views. I believe in business being non-partisan.

As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if we're in some kind of religious cult. I 'renounce beliefs' practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.

The more educated we are, the less we are prepared to tolerate views contrary to our own.

If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other part of our lives, including our political views.

First impressions matter. Most people don't change their political views radically from the ones they first hold.

There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views.

One's political views and/or religious beliefs should not exist in an impenetrable and inviolable bubble wherein they are protected from criticism or scrutiny.

I came from a religious, homeschooled background; I had conventional views across the board.

I just talk, and I guess some of my views came out.