The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.

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 read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.

Close your eyes for a whileThe image that conjures is your soulmate Don’t pause, rush and say what you feelAfter all time and tide for none wait…

A scattered mind will produce scattered results.

Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something like that.

[Donald] Trump is right when he says Ted Cruz citizenship has never been litigated!

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

Thats why we are inconveniencing air traffickers, to make sure nobody is carrying weapons on airplanes.

Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.

Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red.