Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.

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.

We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.

I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

Stats don't measure an athlete's hunger.

Love is at the very root of having a positive attitude.

The greatest achievement of humanity is the human spirit.

The dragon marking rested, his fangs concealed and his eyes shut. "Your dragon is pleased, " she said. "Indeed, he is.

The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way.

Sometimes people can surprise you. Sometimes they have a great capacity to hear the truth.

I still can’t believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976. I was locked up in a juvenile home and he came to visit. I’ve never forgotten it.

I enjoy hearing the way people think. I always have.