18 quotes
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)
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)
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)
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)
A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome.
Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)
disbelief is not an option. The results are not made up, nor are they statistical flukes. You have no choice but to accept that the major conclusions of these studies are true.
Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)
Unless there is an obvious reason to do otherwise, most of us passively accept decision problems as they are framed and therefore rarely have an opportunity to discover the extent to which our preferences are frame-bound rather than reality-bound.
Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)
It took Francis Galton several years to figure out that correlation and regression are not two concepts – they are different perspectives on the same concept. The general rule is straightforward but has surprising consequences: whenever the correlation between two scores is imperfect, there will be regression to the mean.
Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)
Many unfortunate human situations unfold [...] where people who face very bad options take desperate gambles, accepting a high probability of making things worse in exchange for a small hope of avoiding a large loss. Risk taking of this kind often turns manageable failures into disasters.
Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)