Farseers Raging Quotes & Sayings

Human beings are not nearly as coolly rational as we like to think we are. Having set up comfortable planets of belief, we become resistant to altering them, and develop cognitive biases that prevent us from seeing the world with perfect clarity. We aspire to be perfect Bayesian abductors, impartially reasoning to the best explanation - but most often we take new data and squeeze it to fit with our preconceptions. — Sean Carroll

Survivors have responsibilities. — Susan Beth Pfeffer

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. — Austin O'Malley

I don't want to be considered a leader based on what people think goes on in the clubhouse. — Matt Holliday

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness." — Mark Leyner

Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. — Philip Roth

There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death. — David Souter

To feel one's self, to be conscious of one's personality, is the lot of an eye inflamed by a cinder, or an infected finger, or a bad tooth. A healthy eye, or finger, or tooth is not felt; it is nonexistent, as it were. Is it not clear, then, that consciousness of oneself is a sickness? Apparently — Yevgeny Zamyatin