One of the problems with expertise is that people have it in some domains and not in others.

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.

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

you know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious.

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.

Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.