James Harvey Robinson Citas

• Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Goal, Excellence, Being The Best

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• Nos gusta seguir creyendo en lo que nos hemos acostumbrado a aceptar como cierto, y el resentimiento que se despierta cuando se pone en duda alguna de nuestras suposiciones nos lleva a buscar todo tipo de excusas para aferrarnos a ellas. El resultado es que la mayor parte de nuestro supuesto razonamiento consiste en encontrar argumentos para seguir creyendo lo que ya creemos.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Believe, Doubt, Resentment

  James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”

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• Las campañas políticas se convierten deliberadamente en orgías emocionales que intentan distraer la atención de los verdaderos problemas, y paralizan la escasa capacidad de razonamiento que el ser humano puede reunir normalmente.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Real, Men, Emotional

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• Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Life, Power, Unique

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• Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

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  Wisdom, Believe, Intellectual

  James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”

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• Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Spiritual, Pain, Study

  James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”

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• El partidismo es nuestra gran maldición. Asumimos con demasiada facilidad que todo tiene dos caras y que es nuestro deber estar en una u otra.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Two Sides, Political, Atheism

  James Harvey Robinson (1921). “The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform”

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• Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Motivational, Lying, Addiction

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• We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but if someone tries to take them from us, we defend them with almost an illicit passion.

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  Passion, Trying, Belief

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• We continue to think of new things in old ways.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Thinking, Way, New Things

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• La mera falta de éxito no desacredita un método, porque hay muchas cosas que determinan y perpetúan nuestras formas santificadas de hacer las cosas, además de su éxito en alcanzar los fines propuestos.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Success, Way, Doe

  James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”

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• We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Self Esteem, Passion, Ideas

  James Harvey Robinson (2015). “The Mind in Making”, p.26, Read Books Ltd

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• Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Curiosity, May, Realizing

  James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”

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• To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.

  James Harvey Robinson

  "The Human Comedy : As Devised and Directed by Mankind Itself" by James Harvey Robinson, (Ch. 1), 1937.

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• We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

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  Estúpido, Creer, Tonto

  James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”

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• In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Men, History, Done

  James Harvey Robinson (1912). “The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook”

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• History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

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  Memories, History, Overcoming

  James Harvey Robinson (1912). “The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook”

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• Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Errors, Self, Atheism

  James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”

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• I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Everyday, Fool, Facts

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• No hay nada que sea tan interesante para nosotros mismos como nosotros mismos.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Self, Interesting

  James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”

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• Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Men, Long, Found

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