Quotes by : Daniel Kahneman

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

The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful....

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance....

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are....

At work here is that powerful WYSIATI ("what you see is all there is") rule. You cannot help dealing....

The law (of least effort) asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will....

People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that....

Some experimenters have reported that an angry face “pops out” of a crowd of happy faces, but a single....

Dawes observed that the complex statistical algorithm adds little or no value. One can do just as well....

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