When people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound.

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.

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!

Language is a social art.

Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.

For the first time in his life, he felt exactly what he was, and he was not impressed.

I'm far from perfect- maybe beautifully flawed- but I don't lie

Life lived somehow for love is life never wasted.

The commercial paper market, when that dries up, you know, that's just like sucking the blood out of the economic body of the United States.

I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.

I didn't want to become a reserve player, or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge.

The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night.