One of the problems with expertise is that people have it in some domains and not in others.

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 think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing.

I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Regret is just life's aftertaste.

I think that ultimately what drives my decisions is if I think the opportunity is going to challenge me in a way that makes me better as an actor.

I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse

Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me.

Jesus is magic, because he turned water into wine. I think he made the statue of liberty disappear in the 80s or something.

There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.