"We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our……" — Daniel Kahneman
"We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments."
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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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I…
— Joseph Barbera
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If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I…
— Brigitte Bardot
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Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.
— William Bernbach
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of…
— Saul Bellow
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The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was…
— George Boole
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our…
— Ken Burns
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It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of…
— Alan Alda
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Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.
— Jeb Bush
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If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working…
— Jim Carrey
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