Chance Quote by Daniel Kahneman

Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence…

— David Hume

“The difficulties of statistical thinking contribute to the main theme of Part 3, which describes a puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence…

— Daniel Kahneman

We are all vulnerable to the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of vivid, cognitively available risks rather than statistically likelier, but less salient, risks.

— Karl Iagnemma

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

— Leslie Stephen

“Our human race is affected by a chronic underestimation of the possibility of the future straying from the course initially envisioned (in addition to…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Yet it is unassailably true that so long as we lack omniscience and do not know all of the future, all our generalizations are…

— Morris F. Cohen

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

— Nate Silver

As humans, we make a lot of mistakes and take a lot of chances in one lifetime.

— Koena Mitra

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

— Raymond Aron

The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.

— Steve Rivkin

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

— Jay Samit

Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.

— Stellan Skarsgard