How do we distinguish between the legitimate skepticism of those who scoffed at cold fusion, and the stifling dogma of the seventeenthcentury clergymen who, doubting Galileo's claim that the earth was not the center of the solar system, put him under house arrest for the last eight years of his life? In part, the answer lies in the distinction between skepticism and closed-mindedness. Many scientists who were skeptical about cold fusion nevertheless tried to replicate the reported phenomenon in their own labs; Galileo's critics refused to look at the pertinent data.
Thomas GilovichStichwörter: mind psychology logic human-behavior
We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient, however, in evaluating and testing our ideas once they are formed
Thomas GilovichStichwörter: mind psychology logic human-behavior
For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, "Can I believe this?", but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, "Must I believe this?
Thomas GilovichStichwörter: belief mind psychology logic human-behavior
What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe
Thomas GilovichStichwörter: mind psychology logic human-behavior
When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.
Thomas GilovichStichwörter: mind psychology logic human-behavior
People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence
Thomas GilovichStichwörter: mind psychology logic human-behavior
If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.
Dorothy L. SayersStichwörter: truth integrity mind values body honour social-norms
What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?
Patricia HighsmithStichwörter: mind chance creation strangers shadow thoughts trickster sound train patricia-highsmith strangers-on-a-train nightp
But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him.
Patricia HighsmithStichwörter: life words mind self sounds actions strangers voice inner-voice train shouting invasion lights patricia-highsmith strangers-on-a-train inner-voicery shocked
Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.
Amit RayStichwörter: inspirational love beauty nature mind mindfulness meditation relaxation beauty-in-nature nature-s-beauty pure-awareness purifying
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