450 Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

We know that people can maintain an unshakable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers

Statistical results with a causal interpretation have a stronger effect on our thinking than non-causal information. But even compelling causal statistics will not change long-held beliefs or beliefs rooted in personal experience.

The primed ideas have some ability to prime other ideas, although more weakly. Like ripples on a pond, activation spreads through a small part of the vast network of associated ideas.

I can best describe our state as a form of lethargy- an unwillingness to think about what had happened. So we carried on.

Correcting your predictions may complicate your life

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it

Most importantly, 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.

Un modo sicuro di indurre la gente a credere a cose false è la frequente ripetizione, perché la familiarità non si distingue facilmente dalla verità.

Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them.