Daniel Kahneman quotes

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it. (Daniel Kahneman)
It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern. View quote
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Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance. View quote
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Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed. View quote
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Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery. View quote
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acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions. View quote
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It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient. View quote
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A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact. View quote
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The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained. View quote
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We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events. View quote
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This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution. (Daniel Kahneman)
A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise. View quote
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You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general. View quote
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The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little. View quote
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The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact. View quote
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we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness. View quote
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A rare event will be overweighted if it specifically attracts attention. [...] And when there is no overweighting, there will be neglect. View quote
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The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future. View quote
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The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news. View quote
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The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches. View quote
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Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me. (Daniel Kahneman)
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. View quote
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering. View quote
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If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept. View quote
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In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures. View quote
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