Top 112 Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens.

Although professionals are able to extract a considerable amount of wealth from amateurs, few stock pickers, if any, have the skill needed to beat the market consistently, year after year.

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

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

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

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.