Albert Bandura Quotes

Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

A lot of stories that aren't true get out into the mainstream, and it's hard to correct that. People want to hear what they already believe.

If you believe you are right, or you believe you are wrong, you're right. Whenever you are certain about it, you will support it. Remember that.

Belief creates behaviors.

Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.

Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.

You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.

No evidence against a firmly-held belief, no matter how good or abundant it may be, will sway the true believer.

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

Of course you have to create the conditions of a certain belief. And maybe ignoring something that you don't want to see, at least for the time of the shooting.

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.

Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment.

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.

Belief is a deception you play upon yourself.

Out of right thinking comes right practice. It is not true that it does not matter what a man believes. It is not true to say, as many say, that a man's beliefs do not matter, it is only his conduct which is of importance; no lasting right conduct grows out of wrong belief. If you think falsely, you will act mistakenly; if you think basely, your conduct will suit your thinking.

Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.

We believe whatever we want to believe.

There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.

Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.

At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.

As a man believes, so he will act.