If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.

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 happiest moment i felt

Reach deep within, and reconnect with the essence of your being.

Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time.

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.

Every single time I read a script I'm breathless as I turn the pages.

When we're able to put most of our energy into developing our natural talents, extraordinary room for growth exists