Julie Plec Quotes

If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.

I don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

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.'

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

You can have opinions, but it doesn't mean they're right.

I always try and distinguish between facts and opinions.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.

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

Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

Your job as a scientist is to figure out how you're fooling yourself.

The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves.

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup.

Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.