Amos Tversky

"We make better decisions when we slow down and question our intuitions."

"The illusion of understanding is one of our most persistent cognitive errors."

"Confidence is often a mask for uncertainty."

"The conjunction fallacy shows that people judge specific scenarios as more probable than general ones."

"We are all intuitive statisticians, but our statistics are often wildly inaccurate."

"The gambler's fallacy reveals how deeply our minds misunderstand probability."

"Sunk costs should not influence future decisions, yet they always do."

"The endowment effect makes us overvalue things simply because we own them."

"We are slaves to our emotions, dressed up as rational actors."

"The peak-end rule means that we remember experiences not as they were, but as they peaked and how they ended."

"Regret is the most human of emotions, shaped entirely by the roads not taken."

"We cannot help but imagine counterfactual outcomes of our choices."

"The planning fallacy proves that we are hopelessly optimistic about future events."

"Attribution bias makes us blame others' circumstances and credit our own circumstances."

"The fundamental attribution error is wired into our cognitive machinery."

"We see ourselves as more unique and less biased than others, which is itself a bias."

"Status quo bias keeps us trapped in familiar patterns, even when change is clearly better."

"The illusion of control makes us believe we influence things that are entirely random."

"Survivorship bias blinds us to the vast majority of failures."

"We are uncomfortable with randomness and compulsively seek patterns in noise."

"The law of small numbers makes us draw confident conclusions from insufficient evidence."

"Confirmation bias is so powerful that it can survive direct contradiction."

"We tend to remember evidence that supports our views and forget what contradicts them."

"The backfire effect shows that correction of misinformation can actually entrench false beliefs."

"Belief perseverance is remarkably resistant to evidence that should change it."

"We are all products of our cognitive limitations, which we rarely acknowledge."

"The Dunning-Kruger effect ensures that those who know least often feel most confident."

"Expertise is partly knowing the limits of what you know."

"The curse of knowledge makes it impossible for experts to remember what it was like not to know."

"Communication fails most when we most confidently believe it succeeds."