The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

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.

...what the Man-Moth fears most he must do..

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

Forget it, ” I said. “Opie could be bloodthirsty, rabid, radioactive, and selling life insurance and he’d still be preferable to listening to the two of you.

My mom and I had a kids' clothing store called Smooch for six years, and I did all the buying before I even had kids.

I wanted to avoid service, because I was on the road to becoming a professional basketball player.

It was Christ who willingly went to the cross, and it was our sins that took him there.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.

Whether I'm single or in a relationship, I'm the same person. The same human being.