We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

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.

I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

I know that I loved music before I loved movies, simply because I didn't see movies as a kid.

In the person of Christ a man has not become God; God has become man.

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.

Well actually I don't think it's a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God's grace.

Any doorway that leads you to a deeper understanding of who you are is worthwhile.

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

Only someone who believes in marriage would be married five times.