Salah Paham Quotes & Sayings

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes. — Cole Porter

The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means. — Michael Eisner

Maintaining one's vigilance against biases is a chore - but the chance to avoid a costly mistake is sometimes worth the effort. — Daniel Kahneman

Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough to think that they always observe with rigorous and objective scrutiny, and therefore could never be so fooled while ordinary mortals know perfectly well that good performers can always find a way to trick people. — Stephen Jay Gould

Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude. — John Chrysostom

Ironically, brothers and sisters, the natural man who is so very selfish in so many ordinary ways is strangely unselfish in that he reaches for too few of the things that bring real joy. He settles for a mess of pottage instead of eternal joy. — Neal A. Maxwell