Yossi Ghinsberg Quotes

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.

Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

History is the best guide to the future.

All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.

Listen carefully to yourself. Listen to what you dislike, and you will find most of the imagery is what you have received and registered from other people. We ingest labels from others.

In all our perceptions, from vision to hearing, to the pictures we build of people's character, our unconscious mind starts from whatever objective data is available to us - usually spotty - and helps to shape and construct the more complete picture we consciously perceive.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

The trouble with radicals is that they read only radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything.

Men who have been much taught, are apt to be deficient in the sense of present fact; they do not see, in the facts which they are called upon to deal with, what is really there, but what they have been taught to expect.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

All of us, more than we recognize, are products of the thinking around us. And much of this thinking is little, not big.

You can't operate by hindsight.

The thing is, with 'This Is England', you're always thinking as yourself. You're acting on an instinct. You're acting on what you've heard, what you've been told, and what's happened beforehand.

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

WE ARE ALL TRAPPED in our own way of thinking, trapped in our own way of relating to people. We get so used to seeing the world our way that we come to think that the world is the way we see it.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.