“People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence”

—  Thomas Gilovich

Source: How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

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American psychologist 1954

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