Ruth Ware Quotes

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.

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.

A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in the world that did not appeal to me. It was so easy to make a blanket statement when I was improvising only: 'Stand-up's terrible.' It's so ignorant and stupid to do that. But it's easy to do that. So that's where I came from.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. Before you make a statement about someone, get all the information and see everything before you make a judgment.

Far from being a loathsome aberration that ought to be purged from our behavior, it turns out that stereotypes are essential life tools, are accurate much more often than not.

We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices.

Even moderate confirmation bias can result in reality dysmorphia.

People make conclusions about somebody before they actually get to know someone.

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

A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about our political and intellectual convictions, our religious and moral beliefs, our assessments of other people, our memories, our grasp of facts. As absurd as it sounds when we stop to think about it, our steady state seems to be one of unconsciously assuming that we are very close to omniscient.

Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it representative of a whole class.

Do not hear one and judge two.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.

It's human nature to make the complex manageable and determine things that fit your conclusions. That's bias.

As human beings, we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions, to judge people too quickly, and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration.

You should never assume about someone.

People are quick to pigeonhole you.

Adults have pretty much made up their minds - they like you to the extent that you confirm what they already believe.

Assuming audiences to be dumb, that's a big fallacy.

I suppose we are what we are, and we use the evidence to confirm what we believe.