450 Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

Most important, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

Memories are all we get to keep from our experience of living. The only perspective that we can adopt as we think about our lives is therefore that of the remembering self.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

Many parents have discovered, perhaps with some guilt, that they can read a story to a child while thinking of something else.

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

Some experimenters have reported that an angry face “pops out” of a crowd of happy faces, but a single happy face does not stand out in an angry crowd. The brains of humans and other animals contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

We have inherited from our ancestors a great facility to learn when to be afraid. Indeed, one experience is often sufficient to establish a long term aversion and fear.

Freedom has a cost, which is borne by individuals who make bad choices, and by a society that feels obligated to help them.