Daniel Kahneman

"Our judgments about risk are shaped more by emotion than by probability."

"We are each the heroes of our own stories, which makes us poor judges of others."

"The mind is designed to be generous with attention to information that matters, but also to be lazy."

"What you see is all there is—we judge based on available information without adequate allowance for what we don't see."

"Happiness is relative, and adaptation to circumstance is remarkably swift."

"We are better at spotting errors in others' reasoning than in our own."

"The illusion of certainty is one of the most costly biases in decision-making."

"Organizations amplify individual biases when power is concentrated and diversity is low."

"Anchoring effects persist even when people are consciously trying to avoid them."

"We confuse ease of understanding with validity of the idea."

"The tendency to see the world as more fair than it is serves an important psychological function."

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"We can be blind to the obvious, and blind to our blindness."

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it."

"The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a reliable guide to the truth of those beliefs."

"Lazy thinking is the default mode of the human mind."

"Our intuitions are not always trustworthy guides to the world."

"Good mood is a state in which people are more creative, more tolerant, more optimistic, more helpful."

"The illusion that we understand the world is comforting."

"A large part of what we call personality is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness."

"People are not accustomed to making decisions in the presence of multiple strong emotional forces."

"System 1 is automatic and fast, System 2 is deliberate and slow."

"The experiencing self is the one who lives in the moment and remembers nothing."

"Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me."

"We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world."

"Confidence is a feeling, not a fact."

"Our mind has a tendency to reject the importance of factors outside the individual."

"Regret requires imagination about how things could have turned out differently."

"There are domains in which expertise is possible and others where it is impossible."

"Anchoring effects are ubiquitous and powerful."