When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.

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.

Beware of those who love to give advice, but never want to receive it!

The only way to get to where you want to go is to ruthlessly evaluate your where you are now. The key here is that your biggest obstacle in life is always yourself—not external factors.

That's what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past.

A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom or growth upon anyone just for showing up.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

And love … love was worth dying for. Worth living for, too.

You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.