Daniel Kahneman Quotes

Who is Daniel Kahneman?

Daniel Kahneman is an Israeli-American psychologist known for his book 'Thinking Fast and Slow'.

Born March 5, 1934
Age 89 years old

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Best 15 Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

Thinking, Fast and Slow Quotes

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”

Thinking, Fast and Slow

“As cognitive scientists have emphasized in recent years, cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain.”

Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Because we tend to be nice to other people when they please us and nasty when they do not, we are statistically punished for being nice and rewarded for being nasty.”

Thinking, Fast and Slow

“If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.”

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“It is easier to recognize other people’s mistakes than our own.”

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“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.”

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“The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time. Can you find more time to do the things you enjoy doing?”

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“The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.”

Thinking, Fast and Slow

“The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.”

Thinking, Fast and Slow

“The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.”

Thinking, Fast and Slow

“There is evidence that people are more likely to be influenced by empty persuasive messages, such as commercials, when they are tired and depleted.”

Thinking, Fast and Slow

“To derive the most useful information from multiple sources of evidence, you should always try to make these sources independent of each other.”

Thinking, Fast and Slow

“When people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound.”

Thinking, Fast and Slow

“You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.”

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Well-Being Quotes

“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”

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