Selective Thinking Quotes

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

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

I can't have friends in every port. I have to work very hard and be very clear about what I want to do. I cannot just swallow everything I am told. I have to decide what I want to become part of my luggage - and what I don't.

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

I never think about the downs. Well, only when I get asked during interviews.

Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.

Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It's imprinted on you and affects you in subtle ways - ways you are not always aware of. With that in mind, be very conscious and selective.

If you assume away most or all of the questions or difficulties, you can persuade yourself of just about anything.

You're picky about the car you drive. You're picky about what you wear. You're picky about what you put in your mouth. We want you to be pickier about what you think.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

I don't analyse things, and I don't look back. I can think forward - but only about my family. I don't look outside that and certainly don't care what anyone else thinks.

If you have a pre-conceived idea of the world, you edit information. When it leads you down a certain road, you don't challenge your own beliefs.