Daniel Kahneman Quotes

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

We are prone to blame decision makers for good decisions that worked out badly and to give them too little credit for successful moves that appear obvious only after the fact.

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.

Threats are privileged above opportunities, as they should be.

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.

The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.

Because we tend to be nice to other people when they please us and nasty when they do not, we are statistically punished for being nice and rewarded for being nasty.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory.

Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions.

The agent of economic theory is rational, selfish, and his tastes do not change.

Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it.

Plans are best-case scenarios.

The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory.

We are prone to blame decision makers for good decisions that worked out badly and to give them too little credit for successful moves that appear obvious only after the fact.

Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct.

Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.

True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.