"People assign much higher probability to the truth……" — Daniel Kahneman
"People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted."
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158 Quotes by Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman has 158 quotes on this site.
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Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like…
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We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in…
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The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
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The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.
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However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information…
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If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.
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We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors…
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When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.
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The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.
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A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that…
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It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love…
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People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments…
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More Assign Quotes
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
— Charles Baudelaire
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by…
— Winston Churchill
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There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable…
— Giordano Bruno
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Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and…
— Aristotle
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Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.
— Tony Robbins
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You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is…
— Unknown Author
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I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the…
— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
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I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people,
— Ani DiFranco
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Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People…
— George Washington
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the…
— Sigmund Freud
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.
— Marianne Moore
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