Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

- Daniel Gilbert

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

- Daniel Gilbert

Lower your cortisol level. The happiest people have the lowest level of cortisol, a stress hormone that raises blood pressure and weakens the immune …

- Daniel Gilbert

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 tre…

- Daniel Gilbert

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.

- Daniel Gilbert

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

- Daniel Gilbert

Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.

- Daniel Gilbert

Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily …

- Daniel Gilbert

We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of …

- Daniel Gilbert