Too often leaders resist talking about something that’s a work-in-progress and avoid admitting when they don’t have all the answers. But that means leaving people in the dark, which is a pretty good way to breed distrust and undermine any change effort.

— Brian Elliott, Sheela Subramanian, Helen Kupp, and Stewart Butterfield, How the Future Works

Confirmation bias, status quo bias, correspondence bias, and the like are not tacked on to our reasoning; they are its very substance.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind

…it’s better to rely on people you have some connection to instead of on conference talks and such, since there is a surprisingly large amount of misinformation out there.

— Will Larson, An Elegant Puzzle

Tolerance is a principled willingness to put up with the expression and pursuit of beliefs that you know to be wrong, for the sake of some larger ideal, like freedom of inquiry or the autonomy of others in the construction of their own narrative or identity – provided, I would say, that they don’t harm others in the process.

— Christopher Butler, Postmodernism

As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline-the illusion of the good old days.

— Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style