#bias

It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#faith

I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice." "What Choice?" "Dauntless," he says. "I was born Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But I met her, and... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision." Her. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#dauntless #faction #love #romantic #tobias-eaton

Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so. ↗

— William James

#memory #dreams

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#bed #could #ditch #dull #get

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#afraid #phobias #tell #us #will

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#belief #bias #control #dealing #derived

Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#first #first of all #going #i #made

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#behavior #being #biased #exclusively #how

I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine. ↗

— Neil Cavuto

#certain #convey #disagree #fine #here

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#bias #content #contrary #flesh #hard