Quotes About Association

There is no kindness in praise if it be followed by abuse. The love which seems to prompt the spontaneous kiss will be of little account if it be associated with a spontaneous spite.

I BELIEVE THAT CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH ONE WHO REFUSES TO COMPROMISE WITH CIRCUMSTANCES HE DOES NOT LIKE, IS AN ASSET THAT CAN NEVER BE MEASURED IN TERMS OF MONEY.

People take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health

keeping one's distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.

we are not made to view things as independent from each other. When viewing two events A and B, it is hard not to assume that A causes B, B causes A, or both cause each other. Our bias is immediately to establish a causal link.

Engineers can compute but not define, mathematicians can define but not compute, economists can neither define nor compute.

The error in reasoning is a bit from wishful thinking, because education is considered "good"; I wonder why people don't make the epiphenomenal association between the wealth of a country and something "bad," say, decadence, and infer that decadence, or some other disease of wealth like a high suicide rate, also generates wealth.)

perception of causation has a biological foundation.

domain-specific I mean that our reactions, our mode of thinking, our intuitions, depend on the context in which the matter is presented, what

Per lo studioso e leader religioso arabo 'AlÄ« ibn AbÄ« T?lib (che non è un mio parente), mantenere le distanze da una persona ignorante equivale a stare in compagnia di un saggio.

options pushed me to study the math of probability.

I wonder why people don't realize the simple truism, that is, the fooled by randomness effect: mistaking the merely associative for the causal, that is, if rich countries are educated, immediately inferring that education makes a country rich, without even checking. Epiphenomenon

The word sample stresses that one sees only one realization among a collection of possible ones. Now, a sample path can be either deterministic or random, which brings the next distinction.

The first of the problems of human nature that we examine in this section, the one just illustrated above, is what I call the narrative fallacy.

Just as one day some primitive tribesman scratched his nose, saw rain falling, and developed an elaborate method of scratching his nose to bring on the much-needed rain, we link economic prosperity to some rate cut by the Federal Reserve Board, or the success of a company with the appointment of the new president "at the helm.

Because your memory is limited and filtered, you will be inclined to remember those data that subsequently match the facts

every search has incrementally a higher probability of yielding a result

when something is in relation to something else, that something else can be manipulated.

The scientific association with a big idea, the "brand name," goes to the one who connects the dots, not the one who makes a casual observation—even Charles Darwin, who uncultured scientists claim "invented" the survival of the fittest, was not the first to mention it.

El lector podrá observar en esta falacia del viaje de ida y vuelta la injusticia de los estereotipos;

By the mechanism of retrospective determinism we will find the "cause"—actually

and no less intellectual than Nero.

Desde la ventana lo veíamos aparecer por el fondo de la calle, alto, con su rápida forma de caminar: venía comiendo cerezas y arrojando los huesos contra la pared con un tiro seco y fulminante. Para mí la derrota de Francia quedó unida para siempre a aquellas cerezas que él nos hacía probar cuando llegaba, sacándoselas una a una del bolsillo con su mano parsimoniosa y huraña.