Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

Question: So investors shouldn't delude themselves about beating the market? Answer: "They're just not going to do it. It's just not going to happen."

Some achieve a reputation for great successes when in fact all they have done is take chances that reasonable people wouldn't take.

The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

We have a very narrow view of what is going on.

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.

If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.