I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it.

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.

God never abandons His children.

Nothing is ever free even a torn and worn underwear.

The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.

As a race car driver, driving is the easy part. The hard part is containing the emotions on the race track.

To be responsible, keep your promises to others. To be successful, keep your promises to yourself.

These guys are so old they're eligible for meals on wheels.

You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

In today's fast-changing world, it's not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn. That skill is priceless.

If they're going to remember the problem, make sure they remember it fondly.

If I am peaceful, I shall see Beauty's face continually; Feeding on her wine and bread I shall be wholly comforted, For she can make one day for me Rich as my lost eternity.