We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.

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.

A single day in my own shoe that is comfortable for me is better than 365 days in someone else's shoes that does not fit me at all.

500. There are paradoxes. If there were no night, we would be deprived of themagnificent image of a starry sky. Thus light deprives us of "vision, " anddarkness helps us "see.

People get into stand-up comedy by and large because they're smart and they have a perspective.

I think people who go to a psychiatrist ought to have their heads examined.

I choose Hosea. Oh, there's no book of the Bible which more beautifully and more painfully demonstrates how very much God loves us.

Sorry. I'm not, like, medieval torture expert guy.

We don't have selfish guys here, which sometimes leads to problems.

A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress!

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.