Top 500 Daniel Kahneman Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can’t easily recognize that they are the same.”

— Daniel Kahneman

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

— Daniel Kahneman

53. “Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie.”

— Daniel Kahneman

54. “If you can’t take the time for a vacation right now, or even a night out with friends, put something on the calendar – even if it’s a month or a year down the road. Then whenever you need a boost of happiness, remind yourself about it.”

— Daniel Kahneman

55. “Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.”

— Daniel Kahneman

56. “Dawes showed that marital stability is well predicted by a formula: frequency of lovemaking minus frequency of quarrels.”

— Daniel Kahneman

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

— Daniel Kahneman

58. “The technical definition of heuristic is a simple procedure that helps find adequate, though often imperfect, answers to difficult questions. The.”

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59. “Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.”

— Daniel Kahneman

60. “To understand error in judgment, we must understand both bias and noise.”

— Daniel Kahneman

61. “If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It’s the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you’ll be miserable.”

— Daniel Kahneman

62. “When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word – it’s happiness. People do not distinguish.”

— Daniel Kahneman

63. “When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.”

— Daniel Kahneman

64. “The world in our heads is not a precise replica of reality; our expectations about the frequency of events are distorted by the prevalence and emotional intensity of the messages to which we are exposed.”

— Daniel Kahneman

65. “The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.”

— Daniel Kahneman

66. “We don’t see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.”

— Daniel Kahneman

67. “Whenever we can replace human judgment by a formula, we should at least consider it.”

— Daniel Kahneman

68. “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.”

— Daniel Kahneman

69. “A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.”

— Daniel Kahneman

70. “Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them.”

— Daniel Kahneman

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

— Daniel Kahneman

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

— Daniel Kahneman

73. “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.”

— Daniel Kahneman

74. “Bad emotions, bad parents, and bad feedback have more impact than good ones, and bad information is processed more thoroughly than good. The.”

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75. “Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.”

— Daniel Kahneman

76. “When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.”

— Daniel Kahneman

77. “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.”

— Daniel Kahneman

78. “Examples of the planning fallacy abound in the experiences of individuals, governments, and businesses. The list of horror stories is endless.”

— Daniel Kahneman

79. “People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.”

— Daniel Kahneman

80. “Put your ideas in verse if you can; they will be more likely to be taken as truth.”

— Daniel Kahneman

81. “Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.”

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82. “If you’re going to be unreligious, it’s likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.”

— Daniel Kahneman

83. “The third principle is loss aversion. When directly compared or weighted against each other, losses loom larger than gains. This asymmetry between the power of positive and negative expectations or experiences has an evolutionary history. Organisms that treat threats as more urgent than opportunities have a better chance to survive and reproduce.”

— Daniel Kahneman

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

— Daniel Kahneman

85. “The observed regression to the mean cannot be more interesting or more explainable than the imperfect correlation.”

— Daniel Kahneman

86. “I don’t try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.”

— Daniel Kahneman

87. “Every author, I suppose, has in mind a setting in which readers of his or her work could benefit from having read it.”

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88. “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.”

— Daniel Kahneman

89. “It’s nonsense to say money doesn’t buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.”

— Daniel Kahneman

90. “We’re not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds, reconstruct their past opinion – they believe they always thought that.”

— Daniel Kahneman

91. “To derive the most useful information from multiple sources of evidence, you should always try to make these sources independent of each other.”

— Daniel Kahneman

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

— Daniel Kahneman

93. “The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.”

— Daniel Kahneman

94. “If you were allowed one wish for your child, seriously consider wishing him or her optimism.”

— Daniel Kahneman

95. “Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.”

— Daniel Kahneman

96. “If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.”

— Daniel Kahneman

97. “The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time. Can you find more time to do the things you enjoy doing?”

— Daniel Kahneman

98. “When people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound.”

— Daniel Kahneman

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

— Daniel Kahneman

100. “Baumeister’s group has repeatedly found that an effort of will or self-control is tiring; if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around. The phenomenon has been named ego depletion. In.”

— Daniel Kahneman