450 Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

Highly intelligent women tend to marry men who are less intelligent than they are.

Simple equally weighted formulas based on existing statistics or on common sense are often very good predictors of significant outcomes. In a memorable example, Dawes showed that marital stability is well predicted by a formula: frequency of lovemaking minus frequency of quarrels You don’t want your result to be a negative number.

Ten minutes of a smartphone in front of your nose is about the equivalent of an hour long walk in bright daylight. Imagine going for an hour long walk in bright daylight and then thinking, “Now I’ll get some sleep.” It ain’t going to happen.

Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions.

Remember this rule: intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment.

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people’s mistakes than your own.

Loss aversion is a powerful conservative force that favors minimal changes from the status quo.

There is at least one source of occasion noise that we have all noticed: mood.

Why be concerned with gossip? Because it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and label the mistakes of others than to recognize our own.