Need for cognitive consonance

“If it corresponds to my knowledge and beliefs, it must be true.”

“I exaggerate the benefits of an option after choosing it.”

“Everyone seems to agree with me, so I must be right.”

“I evaluate an outcome relative to the amount of effort it took to achieve it.”

“I keep going in the wrong direction despite increasingly negative results.”

“I knew it was going to happen all along. "

"When someone does something, like cut me off in traffic, I assume they did it on purpose."

“You reap what you sow.”

"After doing a good deed, I can afford a socially undesirable deed."

“What I predict comes true.”