We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

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.

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.

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

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

When in doubt, tell the truth. When in pain, listen to the wind.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see-and hits it.

When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.

It is the responsibility of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong.

Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisement.]

It's a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster.

Learning to charge properly is a vital key to abundance. Affirm that you will never devalue yourself by charging less than what you feel you are worth.

I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.