If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.

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.

I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers

I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police.

The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

I’m sorry.” Once again, those were the words. And now, anytime someone says I’m sorry, I’m going to think of her.

A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.

The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were ‘Repent!’

The sky leans on me, me, the one upright among all horizontals.