When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

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.

For the bored souls, sometimes sea is the best answer!

I cannot exist as a solo artist.

There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.

Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race.

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

More than half the questions I am asked are about the politics of the way I look

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.

A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.