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.

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.

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.

Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.

You'll never be as OK with the thought of dying as you are in the moments when you know that you are truly living

Our situation is intolerable, but what's worseis to sit here and do nothing.

I started modeling at 28. I'm 5-feet-7 1/2, and I never went on a diet. I followed what my doctor told me: 'It's good to have a little bit of fat. Your weight is fine. Don't go any lighter.'

Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China. .. There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus.

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.

Nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.

Audie Murphy remains a shining example for anyone who believes in the importance of service, for generations now and into the future.