Daniel Kahneman Short Quotes

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We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

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

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The conclusion is straightforward : self-control requires attention and effort.

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The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.

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We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.

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The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

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The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

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When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.

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

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The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

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The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

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The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.

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If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.

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We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

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Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

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We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.

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You know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious.

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It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.

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Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

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The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry.

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You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.

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Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

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People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations.

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Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.

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There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.

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