Daniel Kahneman Quotes

‘It’s a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘We’re blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We’re not designed to know how little we know.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That’s the ‘halo effect.’ Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders – not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘We think, each of us, that we’re much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it’s the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we’ve already made the decision.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can’t easily recognize that they are the same.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.’ – Daniel Kahneman