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Top 70 David McRaney Quotes (2025 Update)
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David McRaney Quote: “What you see, recall, and feel emotionally is 100 percent created by chemical reactions in your braincase, and that means those things are susceptible to influence, editing, redacting, and all sorts of other ingredients that get added to consciousness when you construct reality out of inputs both external and internal.”

51. “What you see, recall, and feel emotionally is 100 percent created by chemical reactions in your braincase, and that means those things are susceptible to influence, editing, redacting, and all sorts of other ingredients that get added to consciousness when you construct reality out of inputs both external and internal.”

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David McRaney Quote: “People who use the number of friends they have on Facebook as a metric of their social standing are fooling themselves. You can share videos of fainting goats with hundreds of acquaintances and thousands of followers, but you can trust a secret only with a handful of true friends.”

52. “People who use the number of friends they have on Facebook as a metric of their social standing are fooling themselves. You can share videos of fainting goats with hundreds of acquaintances and thousands of followers, but you can trust a secret only with a handful of true friends.”

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David McRaney Quote: “Behaviors create attitudes.”

53. “Behaviors create attitudes.”

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David McRaney Quote: “The best bluff, it turns out, is the one in which even the bluffer is unaware of the cards he is holding.”

54. “The best bluff, it turns out, is the one in which even the bluffer is unaware of the cards he is holding.”

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David McRaney Quote: “A roundworm has about three hundred neurons. A cat has about a billion, and you have about eighty-five billion.”

55. “A roundworm has about three hundred neurons. A cat has about a billion, and you have about eighty-five billion.”

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David McRaney Quote: “You can try to fight it back. You can buy a daily planner and a to-do list application for your phone. You can write yourself notes and fill out schedules. You can become a productivity junkie surrounded by instruments to make life more efficient, but these tools alone will not help, because the problem isn’t you are a bad manager of your time – you are a bad tactician in the war inside your brain.”

56. “You can try to fight it back. You can buy a daily planner and a to-do list application for your phone. You can write yourself notes and fill out schedules. You can become a productivity junkie surrounded by instruments to make life more efficient, but these tools alone will not help, because the problem isn’t you are a bad manager of your time – you are a bad tactician in the war inside your brain.”

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David McRaney Quote: “Many treatments have turned out over the years to be no better than placebos, and placebos, we have learned, are now known to be one of the strongest anomalies of the mind.”

57. “Many treatments have turned out over the years to be no better than placebos, and placebos, we have learned, are now known to be one of the strongest anomalies of the mind.”

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David McRaney Quote: “People who take credit for the times when things go their way but who put the blame on others when they stumble or fall are generally happier people.”

58. “People who take credit for the times when things go their way but who put the blame on others when they stumble or fall are generally happier people.”

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David McRaney Quote: “Subjective optimization complements sour grapes, the inclination to see that which you can’t have as that which you didn’t want in the first place. Subjective optimization makes whatever you get stuck with seem better than that which you can no longer obtain. Metaphorically, it is the process that makes lemons into lemonade.”

59. “Subjective optimization complements sour grapes, the inclination to see that which you can’t have as that which you didn’t want in the first place. Subjective optimization makes whatever you get stuck with seem better than that which you can no longer obtain. Metaphorically, it is the process that makes lemons into lemonade.”

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David McRaney Quote: “Branding builds on this by giving you the option to create the person you think you are through choosing to align yourself with the mystique of certain products.”

60. “Branding builds on this by giving you the option to create the person you think you are through choosing to align yourself with the mystique of certain products.”

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61. “If you see yourself as the kind of person who owns Apple computers, or who drives hybrids, or who smokes Camels, you’ve been branded. And once a person is branded, that person will defend the brand by finding flaws in the alternative choice and pointing out benefits in his or her own.”

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David McRaney Quote: “Mathematically speaking, though, there is a miracle happening every time you turn a page of this book.”

62. “Mathematically speaking, though, there is a miracle happening every time you turn a page of this book.”

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David McRaney Quote: “You are always looking for risks and rewards, but when you want to believe something is good you will unconsciously turn down the volume on the bad qualities, and vice versa.”

63. “You are always looking for risks and rewards, but when you want to believe something is good you will unconsciously turn down the volume on the bad qualities, and vice versa.”

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David McRaney Quote: “To be less dumb, remember your propensity for post hoc postulation and the power positive permutations of the placebo effect have to pollute your perspicacity.”

64. “To be less dumb, remember your propensity for post hoc postulation and the power positive permutations of the placebo effect have to pollute your perspicacity.”

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David McRaney Quote: “You want the world to be fair, so you pretend it is.”

65. “You want the world to be fair, so you pretend it is.”

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David McRaney Quote: “Did we really put a man on the moon? If you are looking for proof we didn’t, you can find it.”

66. “Did we really put a man on the moon? If you are looking for proof we didn’t, you can find it.”

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David McRaney Quote: “You are biased to overestimate the emotional impact of future events.”

67. “You are biased to overestimate the emotional impact of future events.”

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David McRaney Quote: “You sold out long ago in one way or another. The specifics of who you sell to and how much you make – those are only details.”

68. “You sold out long ago in one way or another. The specifics of who you sell to and how much you make – those are only details.”

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David McRaney Quote: “Wine tasters will mention all sorts of things they can taste in a fine wine, as if they were a human spectrograph with the ability to sense the molecular makeup of their beverage. Research shows, however, this perception can be hijacked, fooled, and might just be completely wrong.”

69. “Wine tasters will mention all sorts of things they can taste in a fine wine, as if they were a human spectrograph with the ability to sense the molecular makeup of their beverage. Research shows, however, this perception can be hijacked, fooled, and might just be completely wrong.”

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David McRaney Quote: “Belief is a pretty fragile thing, which is probably why most people guard it so carefully.”

70. “Belief is a pretty fragile thing, which is probably why most people guard it so carefully.”

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David McRaney Quote: “In science, you move closer to the truth by seeking evidence to the contrary. Perhaps the same method should inform your opinions as well.”

71. “In science, you move closer to the truth by seeking evidence to the contrary. Perhaps the same method should inform your opinions as well.”

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David McRaney Quote: “Sure enough, all the sciences that study tribes, bands, and villages have approximated ancient groups usually maxed out around 150 people. This is the approximate upper limit to how many people you can trust and count on for favors, whom you can call up and have a conversation with. Once you go over 150 people, Dunbar says about 42 percent of the group’s time would have to be spent worrying about one another’s relationships.”

72. “Sure enough, all the sciences that study tribes, bands, and villages have approximated ancient groups usually maxed out around 150 people. This is the approximate upper limit to how many people you can trust and count on for favors, whom you can call up and have a conversation with. Once you go over 150 people, Dunbar says about 42 percent of the group’s time would have to be spent worrying about one another’s relationships.”

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David McRaney Quote: “When a kid asks, “But, why?” she is rightfully bringing to the attention of the adult world that all this stuff is just made up and mostly arbitrary nonsense often clung to for some long-forgotten reason.”

73. “When a kid asks, “But, why?” she is rightfully bringing to the attention of the adult world that all this stuff is just made up and mostly arbitrary nonsense often clung to for some long-forgotten reason.”

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David McRaney Quote: “This sets you up to be more afraid of terrorists than home furniture, even though falling couches and televisions take more lives each year.”

74. “This sets you up to be more afraid of terrorists than home furniture, even though falling couches and televisions take more lives each year.”

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David McRaney Quote: “THE TRUTH: You are driven to create and form groups and then believe others are wrong just because they are others.”

75. “THE TRUTH: You are driven to create and form groups and then believe others are wrong just because they are others.”

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