Daniel Kahneman Quotes

1934–2024 Israel

Daniel Kahneman (March 5, 1934 – March 27, 2024) was an Israeli-American psychologist. He shared the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Vernon L.

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People who make a difference do not die alone. Something dies in everyone who was affected by them.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it.

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

He weights losses about twice as much as gains, which is normal.

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

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.

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

The first advice is to slow down, and not follow your first impulses.

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

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

You should inform your gut and then trust it.

There's literally no difference between a physician recognizing a disease from a "facial expression", and a little child pointing to something and saying "doggie".

There is a deep gap between our thinking about statistics and our thinking about individual cases.

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

Experienced well-being is on average unaffected by marriage, not because marriage makes no difference to happiness, but because it changes some aspects of life for the better and others for the worse.

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

He's taking an inside view. He should forget about his own case and look for what happened in other cases.

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

There is no evidence that risk takers in the economic domain have an unusual appetite for gambles on high stakes; they are merely less aware of risks than more timid people are.

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

The storm starts, when the drops start dropping. When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.

It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

A rare event will be overweighted if it specifically attracts attention. [...] And when there is no overweighting, there will be neglect.

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

Although humans are not irrational, they often need help to make more accurate judgements and better decisions. [...] [They] also need protection from others who deliberately exploit their weaknesses [...].

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.

I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

Bias, Blindness and How We Truly Think (2011)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Daniel Kahneman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.