Higher Quote by Daniel Kahneman Download Open image “People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.” — Daniel Kahneman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Higher Opinion People Probability Truth
People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“People prefer opinions to truth. They try to bend the world to fit their assumptions, instead of changing their assumptions to fit the world.… — Elizabeth C. Mock Copy Share Image
It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth. — Ralph Venning Copy Share Image
It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It's funny how a random person can come up to us with their opinion on a subject and we just pass it off as… — Adar Burks Copy Share Image
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Sometimes people can have their opinions and say whatever they want. — Scott McTominay Copy Share Image
“Biased people are seen as prejudicial and unfair, arrogant and overly confident of their position. Nobody wants to be identified as someone who is biased or opinionated. But make no mistake about it, all of us have a point of view; all of us hold opinions and ideas that color the way we see the world. Anyone who tells you… — J. Warner Wallace Copy Share
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“People who are poor think like traders, but the dynamics are quite different. Unlike traders, the poor are not indifferent to the differences between… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“So this is my aim for watercooler conversations: improve the ability to identify and understand errors of judgment and choice, in others and eventually… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“For example, I recently came to doubt my long-held impression that adultery is more common among politicians than among physicians or lawyers.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long;… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way… — Stephen Chow Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth. — John Dickinson Copy Share Image