Benigno Aquino III Quotes

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them as if we're doing a high school problem, like what is beautiful, what makes me recognized among my peers. We don't go and think about things. We, as a society, don't wish to engage in rational thought.

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.

There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

A man's clarity of judgment is never very good when you're involved, and as you grow older, and as you grow more involved, your clarity of judgement suffers.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Very bad things follow when we kid ourselves that we're naturally rational, rather than the more humbling truth: naturally emotional.

All know the influence of interest on the mind of man, and how unconsciously his judgement is warped by that influence.

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.

Even moderate confirmation bias can result in reality dysmorphia.

Our facts aren't fact; they are opinions dressed up like facts. Our opinions aren't opinions; they are emotions that feel like opinions. Our information isn't information; it's just hastily assembled symbols.

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

Hate is love without enough data.