If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.

Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they're very likely to be wrong.

I'm not a great believer in self-help.

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own.

If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry."

Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.