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Daniel Kahneman
1934 • Israeli • Psychologist
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Collected Meditations
Showing 68 quotesAfter a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.— Daniel Kahneman
My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.— Daniel Kahneman
Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won't remember them.— Daniel Kahneman
All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.— Daniel Kahneman
Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.— Daniel Kahneman
Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them.— Daniel Kahneman
It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.— Daniel Kahneman
Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.— Daniel Kahneman
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.— Daniel Kahneman
In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.— Daniel Kahneman
People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.— Daniel Kahneman
The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.— Daniel Kahneman