"We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness."

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Source : Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.26, Macmillan

Daniel Kahneman

#Blind Quotes #Obvious Quotes #Blindness Quotes

“You need to know that you can't honor God when you're chained to the voice and opinions of man.”
“After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.”
“Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, youâ€™d get dressed up in a nurseâ€™s outfit and give me a sponge bath?" asked Jace. "It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath." "As soon as Iâ€™m back on my feet, handsome," said Simon. "I knew we should have left you a rat.”
“There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.”

Source : Michael Ian Black (2012). “You're Not Doing It Right: Tales of Marriage, Sex, Death, and Other Humiliations”, p.106, Simon and Schuster
“Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most powerful incentives to goodness.”
“And there was some trouble with Oliver Cowdery, and whisper said it was relating to a girl then living in his family; and I was afterwards told by Warren Parish, that he himself and Oliver Cowdery did not that Joseph had Fannie Alger as wife, for they were spied upon and found together. And I can now see that at Nauvoo, so at Kirtland, that the suspicion or knowledge of the Prophet's plural relation was one of the causes of apostasy and disruption at Kirtland, although at the time there was little said publicly on the subject.”
“Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.
“Accept the challenges of life and you'll continue to find that winning is the spirit of living . . . it's merely a state of mind.”

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