Jonathan Haidt Quotes

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

If you can fool every single member of the audience into thinking you're confident and you deserve to be there, everyone will jump on your side.

I don't want to say 'gullible,' but when I saw someone, I always thought that person is the way they present themselves.

The kind of person other people perceive you to be controls their responses to you.

You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.

I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.

I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life.

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

I try to look cool. I strategize. Sometimes it's like - that's part of the strategizing, to make it seem like I don't think about it.

I'm a short, fairly plain person who's bluffing his case and getting away with it.

I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it's going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they'll want to help you, and you will end up having a career.

When you constantly claim you are the best, people start to believe that. I see that happen a lot. You can convince a lot of people by talking, even if that has nothing to do with your actual performances. But that's not my thing.

Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

Do not be deceived by a man's eloquence; rather whoever fulfils trusts and refrains from impugning people's honour is a real man.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.