Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

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.

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

You guys just aren’t fair, between your vampire pheromones and your gorgeous good looks, we humans just don’t stand a chance.

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make ... your life bearable.

Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.

I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.

Yeah, I'm sure there are stereotypes of Asian people.

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

I think we understand people frustration. We certainly don't want to make it worse.

When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.