A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. - Daniel Kahneman

If you were allowed one wish for your child, seriously consider wishing him or her optimism.

Those who avoid the sin of intellectual sloth could be called “engaged.” They are more alert, more intellectually active, less willing to be satisfied with superficially attractive answers, more skeptical about their intuitions.

You like or dislike people long before you know much about them; you trust or distrust strangers without knowing why; you feel that an enterprise is bound to succeed without analyzing it. Whether you state them or not, you often have answers to questions that you do not completely understand, relying on evidence that you can neither explain nor defend.