The Little Book of Stupidity Quotes

“Don’t Forget The Story “The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.” Erik Erikson”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.” Woody Allen”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“When people are incompetent in the strategies they adopt to achieve success, they suffer a dual burden. They not only make mistakes that others may deem stupid but their incompetence robs them of the ability to comprehend it.”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely You Are Now So Smart by David McRaney You Are Now Less Dumb by David McRaney The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“podcast called Skeptics Guide to the Universe,”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“We all crave resolution. Whether we actually get that resolution or create a narrative that explains it, it serves the same purpose—to simplify things.”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“Deviating from a situation that already provides safety isn’t an evolutionary smart thing to do.”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” Malcolm X”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“We are not very good at guessing how long things will last or how frequently events occur together. This myopic tendency was beautifully researched in the late 1960s by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman. Their availability heuristic bias soon found acceptance in most fields.”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“The problem is that we are all idiots; especially, when we think we are more rational and less prone to biases than others. This is the bias blind spot. It’s named after the visual blind spot in our eye (or car). We recognize the cognitive bias of others but fail to see the importance of our own biases on our judgment.”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“chemistry? Actually, the concept is quite simple. Basically, it means that people value money over time. But not just any time, I mean the here and now.”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“Research has shown that attempts to “enlighten” believers can be either entirely useless or serve to bolster their current belief systems. This bolstering of belief is often referred to as entrenching. This is the idea that once you have invested mental energy into a habit or belief, you strongly reject any potential contradictory information.”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“The confirmation bias is so fundamental to your development and your reality that you might not even realize it is happening. We look for evidence that supports our beliefs and opinions about the world but excludes those that run contrary to our own.”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“A bias, put simply, is a systematic pattern of deviation from the norm in judgment. This deviation causes people to make inferences about other people and situations in a highly illogical fashion. People create their own “reality” from selective input.”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“When people have too many choices, they make bad choices.” Thom Browne”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“We are all born ignorant, but work hard to remain stupid.” Benjamin Franklin”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?” Vince Lombardi”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.” Mark Twain”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“We don’t know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don’t always appreciate their fragility.” Malcolm Gladwell”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.” Spock: Leonard Nimoy (1931–2015)”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“In an attempt to simplify the world and make it conform to our expectations, we have been blessed with the gift of cognitive biases.”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.” Spock”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“If you see yourself as a law abiding citizen, breaking the law doesn’t conform with your self-image.”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“You are a story. Your life is a story. Everything you do fits into that story. Within that story, we have a character.”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“Each of us is a storyteller whether we know it or not. Our subjective reality is constructed within our minds regardless of what is happening outside.”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others

“Our behaviour has to fit somewhere, and that somewhere is our ever-changing, ever-so-adaptable narrative story about who we are.”
― Sia Mohajer, The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others