Paige 54 I'm talking about the desire to be…
Paige 54 I'm talking about the desire to be right the minute we form belief we start developing attachments to it.
— from The Mind in the Cockpit
In the book
Most of the time we genuinely feel we are doing what is right even as we deceive ourselves, and the cycle never announces itself. The engine of nearly all of it is the simple, hidden desire to be right: the moment we form a belief we begin to defend it, and from then on we are no longer weighing the evidence, we are recruiting it. Watch the machinery in yourself — when you want something to be true, you ask quietly, "Can I believe this?" and the smallest scrap of support will do; when you do not want it to be true, you ask "Must I believe this?" and you will find a reason to escape. — The Mind in the Cockpit