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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

Theory Induced Blindness

Once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult to notice its flaws. If you come upon an observation that does not seem to fit the model, you assume that there must be a perfectly good explanation that you are somehow missing.

Daniel Kahneman
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