Fooling Ourselves Quotes

When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know, discover something new.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other.

If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.

I think we're fooling ourselves if we think that regulators are going to be able to outsmart the bankers. So, the task of designing regulatory reform is trying to make more or less foolproof regulation and that's one of the advantages of the systemic category.

It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.