450 Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

Considering how little we know, the confidence we have in our beliefs is preposterous – and it is also essential.

Charge the loss to your mental account of ‘general revenue’ – you will feel better!

Fast thinking includes both variants of intuitive thought – the expert and the heuristic.

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don’t decide to do it. We don’t control it.

Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they’re actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they’re in in the course of the day.

Bias and noise – systematic deviation and random scatter – are different components of error.

Evaluating people as attractive or not is a basic assessment. You do that automatically whether or not you want to, and it influences you.

The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you’re in academia or in the investment community, you’d better pay serious attention to them.

First, people are generally rational, and their thinking is normally sound. Second, emotions such as fear, affection, and hatred explain most of the occasions on which people depart from rationality.