Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.

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.

Set out time to worship God in your closet, give Him quality praise and watch Him raise you.

With patient, you shall possess your soul.

True humility is contentment.

A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.

Stencils are good for two reasons; one - they're quick; two - they annoy idiots.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

There are many different ways now to experience nature. Get out there and hike.

The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also becomes more unequal.

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.