“People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.” — Marisha Pessl, Night Film
Tag: fundamental attribution error
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“We keep our distance from hotheads, implore people to be reasonable, and regret various flings, outbursts, and acts of thoughtlessness.” — Steven Pinker, “It’s Not Irrational to Party Like It’s 1999,” Nautilus (2021-11-17)
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“No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.” — William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
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“Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn’t be prepared to make for other people.” — Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex
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“The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken. When you add that people are necessarily mistaken, that all people are exposed to situations in which they must act as fools, that every insight contains its own special kind of blindness, you complete the comic circle.” — Kenneth Burke, Attitudes Toward History
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“’When it comes to understanding others,’ I said, ‘we rarely tax our imaginations.’” — Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name
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“People who barely know their own minds can tell you, in minute detail, the arcane motives of a person whom they’ve never met.” — Michael Wade, Lessons of Modern Life (2017-08-18)
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“Ambitious men never believe others aren’t the same.” — Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair
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“It is not always or even often the bad person who does evil and, in the hope that it will make you more understanding of those who do wrong, because they can be, they are, you and me.” — Guido Calabresi, 70th Commencement Address, Connecticut College (1988)
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“If we would consider what our affairs are indeed, not what they are called, we should find more evils belonging to us than happen to us.” — Ben Jonson, Timber
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