Perceptions Are Portraits, Not Photographs, And Their

People Are Drastically Overconfident About Their Judgments Of Others.

Your Mistake Was Not In Imagining Things You Could Not Know—that Is, After All, What Imagination Is For. Rather, Your Mistake Was In Unthinkingly Treating What You Imagined As Though It Were An Accurate Representation Of The Facts.

The Eye And Brain Are Conspirators, And, Like Most Conspiracies, Theirs Is Negotiated Behind Closed Doors, In The Back Room, Outside Of Our Awareness.

Human Beings Are Works In Progress That Mistakenly Think They're Finished.

In Short, We Derive Support For Our Preferred Conclusions By Listening To The Words That We Put In The Mouths Of People Who Have Already Been Preselected For Their Willingness To Say What We Want To Hear.