It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

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.

As I sat up I turned my head to the side, but immediately straightened it again when I felt a sharp pain shoot through my neck.

Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long... long before we know how to get there.

Ideas are never original, " Kelsier said. "Only one thing is.""And what is that?"Style, " Kelsier said.Then he punched Ruin across the face.

Happiness is the cheapest thing in the world when we buy it for someone else.

When you awaken, your manhood will be taken.

If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

I never killed a man who didn't need it.

Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

I give you points for persistence, but you lose a few for being slow on the uptake. (Rae)