"Survival prospects are poor for an animal that……" — Daniel Kahneman

"Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty."

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158 Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman has 158 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like…
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in…
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.
However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information…
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.
We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors…
When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.
The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.
A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that…
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love…
People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments…

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware… — David Attenborough

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