Emotional Bias Quotes

Emotions neither prove nor disprove facts. There was a time when any rational adult understood this. But years of dumbed-down education and emphasis on how people 'feel' have left too many people unable to see through this media gimmick.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.

Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us.

College professors are suspect because whenever emotion is in control, anti-intellectualism prevails.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them.

As soon as fear, hatred, jealousy and power worship are involved, the sense of reality becomes unhinged. And ... the sense of right and wrong becomes unhinged also. There is no crime, absolutely none, that cannot be condoned when ‘our’ side commits it. Even if one does not deny that the crime has happened, even if one knows that it is exactly the same crime as one has condemned in some other case, even if one admits in an intellectual sense that it is unjustified — still one cannot feel that it is wrong. Loyalty is involved, and so pity ceases to function.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

The reason that Americans have not been able to see the great strategic benefit that could accrue from a closer relationship with Iran is emotion.

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred.

Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

For most people, it's easy to be passionate about things that are working out, and that distorts our impression of the importance of passion. I've been involved in several dozen business ventures over the course of my life, and each one made me excited at the start. You might even call it passion.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger

Passion paralyzes good taste.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

Personal pique is not a foreign policy.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.

Never confuse wishes with facts.

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

Traditional economics is based on imaginary creatures sometimes referred to as 'Homo economicus.' I call them Econs for short. Econs are amazingly smart and are free of emotion, distraction or self-control problems. Think Mr. Spock from 'Star Trek.'

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.

Being on the outside of something, watching someone make a risky decision, it's so easy to judge someone for that. But when you're in it, it's impossible to see it.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.