People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

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.

Jesus Christ died to save all mankind.

Blurred vision makes you misunderstand and misinterpret your purpose in life.

Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want.

And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?

Love that does not know of suffering is not worthy of the name.

We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

I realized that making music can help me to convey my feelings, and if it can relieve me, maybe it can help someone else?

If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up.

If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.