450 Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.

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

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.

Many people will admit that they made a mistake [putting money in dot-coms or telecoms at their peak] But that doesn’t mean that they’ve changed their mind about anything in particular. It doesn’t mean that they are now able to avoid that mistake.

My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.