Endlessly amused by people's minds.

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

The Son of Man is the Mediator of God and humanity.

The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.

No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.

Its important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.

The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.

To be successful, you only need one person to believe!

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

Mediocrity always attacks excellence.

Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.