Amos Tversky

"Anchoring effects shape our judgments more than we realize."

"We are all prisoners of our own perspectives."

"The ability to change your mind is a sign of strength, not weakness."

"Our memories are reconstructions, not recordings."

"We overestimate what we can accomplish in a year and underestimate what we can in ten."

"The fear of making mistakes can be more costly than the mistakes themselves."

"Understanding human nature requires embracing its contradictions."

"We often make decisions based on emotional responses disguised as logical reasoning."

"The most valuable insights often come from recognizing our own blindness."

"Regret teaches us more than success ever can."

"We are all subject to the tyranny of the normal and the familiar."

"The strength of our convictions is rarely proportional to their validity."

"People are more influenced by stories than by statistics."

"Our intuitions are often wrong, yet we trust them implicitly."

"The pursuit of happiness is often the best way to miss it."

"We tend to remember the hits and forget the misses in our decision-making."

"Context determines meaning; meaning determines behavior."

"The most important decisions are often made with incomplete information."

"Our brains are prediction machines that are often wildly inaccurate."

"The illusion of randomness is as powerful as the illusion of control."

"We are creatures of habit, yet we believe we are creatures of reason."

"The gap between what we say we value and what we actually value is telling."

"Overconfidence is a feature of the human mind, not a bug."

"We judge the competence of others by their confidence, not their accuracy."

"The most powerful force in human behavior is the need to maintain self-image."

"Numbers don't lie, but our interpretation of them certainly does."

"We are all living in a world of our own making, unaware of the distortions."

"The ability to delay gratification is overrated as a predictor of success."

"Our sense of identity is fluid and context-dependent, though we feel it is fixed."

"The pursuit of certainty is a fundamental human drive that blinds us to reality."