“Most nostalgia for the glorious past is delusional thinking.”
Quote from Thanks a Thousand by A.J. Jacobs
Quirky thoughts from an old man.
“Most nostalgia for the glorious past is delusional thinking.”
Quote from Thanks a Thousand by A.J. Jacobs
“We are an easily manipulated species. When the same coffee is served in a fancier cup people think it tastes better.”
Quote from Thanks a Thousand by A.J. Jacobs
“Almost everything good in the world is a result of teamwork.”
Quote from Thanks a Thousand by A.J. Jacobs
“Sometimes your personal experience (a worm’s eye view) conflicts with statistics (a bird’s-eye view.”
Tim Harford in The Data Detective
“I don’t want to get to heaven and spend my time complaining about the volume of the harp music.”
Quote from Thanks a Thousand by A.J. Jacobs
“It is convenient to be a reasonable creature, since it enables us to find or make a reason for everything we have a mind to do.”
Benjamin Franklin
Quoted by Tim Harford in The Data Detective
“A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.” Moliere
Quoted by Tim Harford in The Data Detective
“We’d be wiser to acknowledge that we all think with our hearts not our heads sometimes.”
Tim Harford in The Data Detective
“We often find ways to dismiss evidence that we don’t like.”
Tim Hartford in The Data Detective.