People who face a difficult question often answer an easier one instead, without realizing it.

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.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Economic integration is the path to riches and peace.

My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.

It feels really great to be popular.

Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes.

Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.

Hillary Clinton has built a huge machine. Donald Trump's asset is people on Facebook and twitter. He can communicate with them eight or 10 times a day with no money. This is a different world.

If you want a friend, feed any animal.

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.