You should not take your intuitions at face value.

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.

Nothing can hinder us if we make the right choice

The Only mattered to him.Iconoclasm.

Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.

Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.

It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.

I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.