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Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger…
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We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.
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The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
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The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.
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However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than…
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If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.
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We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we…
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When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.
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The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.
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A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed.…
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It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who…
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People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social…
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower…
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There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
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To cheapen the lives of any group of men [or women], cheapens the lives of all men [and women], even our own.…
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There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is…
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We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
— Daniel Kahneman
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The pangs of pain, of failure, in this mortal lot, are the birth-throes of transition to better things. We are separated for…
— John Elof Boodin
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Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each…
— Pierre-Jean de Beranger
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And I saw that truly nothing happens by accident or luck, but everything by God's wise providence. If it seems to be…
— Julian of Norwich
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There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
— Grantland Rice
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