Julia Child Quotes

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

The paradigm helps a person identify the thought system, which is almost always false, that is behind the rationale for the continuation of excuses. It helps them really look at excuses from an objective point of view and realize that everything they've been thinking is just as likely to be not true as it is to be true.

We do not see the lens through which we look.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.

Our thoughts and our feelings, of course, are not wholly objective, they're inherently subjective. And that's the danger, and I think as long as we're aware of it and can push back against it, I don't think that these two views are necessarily incompatible.

As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.

It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

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.'

I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes.

We tend to believe our own propaganda a little too completely.

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.

Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle.

The satiated person and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.

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 are many different ways to look at a situation, and it's important to look at things the way they are.