450 Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

You can see why the common admonition to “act calm and kind regardless of how you feel” is very good advice: you are likely to be rewarded by actually feeling calm and kind.

Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don’t think they are right, but that’s the way it is.

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

The idea that large historical events are determined by luck is profoundly shocking, although it is demonstrably true.

If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: “Don’t go to bed angry.”

We were sufficiently similar to understand each other easily, and sufficiently different to surprise each other. We.

For example, the question “Do you now feel a slight numbness in your left leg?” always prompts quite a few people to report that their left leg does indeed feel a little strange.

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It’s highly fallible, and we should know that.

Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it’s interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won’t remember them.