Victor Hugo Quotes

People just see what they want to see.

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.

When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs; and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.

A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.

We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.

Our pride is tied up in being right. We tend to favor data that confirm our beliefs, so we don't see alternatives. Too often, leaders practice defense routines that become self-reinforcing.

Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.

Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire

Man soon finds what he wants to find. If he cannot find it otherwise, he creates it for his special enjoyment

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

Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

Men who have excessive faith in their theories ... make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only what suits their object, neglecting whatever is unrelated to it and carefully setting aside everything which might tend toward the idea they wish to combat

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.

When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.

The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.

To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion.