"It is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored."

"When people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound."

"An inability to be guided by a “healthy fear” of bad consequences is a disastrous flaw."

"Conflict between an automatic reaction and an intention to control it is common in our lives."

"The worse the consequence, the greater the hindsight bias."

"Because it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and label the mistakes of others than to recognize our own. Questioning what we believe and want is difficult at the"

"I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me."

"Do we still remember the question we are trying to answer? Or have we substituted an easier one?"