I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

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.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.

A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.

Government is not competent enough to regulate.

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

It's nice to be part of something that could grow into something else and be there at the beginning of it.

There are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.