Jim Butcher Quotes

A growing body of psychology research shows that incompetence deprives people of the ability to recognize their own incompetence. To put it bluntly, dumb people are too dumb to know it…. Along the same lines, people who aren't talented in a given area tend not to be able to recognize the talents or good ideas of others, from co-workers to politicians. This may impede the democratic process, which relies on citizens having the capacity to identify and support the best candidate or policy.

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.

The heart and the mind, what an enigma.

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.

You can't reason people out of beliefs they weren't reasoned into.

God designed the stomach to eject what is bad for it, but not the human brain.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

A crowd thinks in images, and the image itself calls up a series of other images, having no logical connection with the first...A crowd scarcely distinguishes between the subjective and the objective. It accepts as real the images invoked in its mind, though they most often have only a very distant relation with the observed facts....Crowds being only capable of thinking in images are only to be impressed by images.

The most bizarre demographics come up to me. Men in their 50s come up to me and are like, "Alison is my favorite. I hated her at first, and now I love her." I don't know what that says about people's psychology.

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.

People in this world are not often logical.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.

It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.