Daniel Kahneman

"The experiencing self does not have a voice that is heard in the global evaluation of life."

"Willingness to accept a claim is heavily influenced by how friendly or hostile the information feels."

"Our preferences can be manipulated by the way in which options are presented."

"The evidence that the baby of the family tends to be the most sociable is quite compelling."

"Rare events are naturally overestimated by the media and the human mind alike."

"Cognitive biases are not errors waiting to happen, they are features of the way the mind works."

"The visible world is extremely impoverished compared to the infinite possibilities of the invisible world."

"Happiness is often found in simple everyday moments rather than grand achievements."

"Our brains love a good story, even when the evidence suggests otherwise."

"The tendency to be attracted to explanations is so powerful that we prefer false certainty to true uncertainty."

"Money does not make as much difference to well-being as we expect."

"Adaptation is a psychological immune system that protects us from permanent damage."

"Sunk cost fallacy: we throw good money after bad because we are reluctant to admit past mistakes."

"The future is fundamentally uncertain in ways that the past is not."

"We are all vulnerable to the illusion of understanding."

"System 1 is the automatic, unconscious, associative system; System 2 is the deliberate, rational, analytical system."

"Mood affects the operation of System 1: when happy, people are more creative but also more gullible."

"The illusion of validity is the impression that we are more accurate than we truly are."

"A single dramatic story is more persuasive than a large body of statistical evidence."

"The mind automatically accepts unchallenged messages and rejects messages that are explicitly denied."

"We use heuristics, which are simple rules of thumb that usually work but sometimes fail miserably."

"Focusing on one aspect of a complex problem at the expense of others is called narrow framing."

"We are too confident in our judgments and beliefs about the world."

"The best prediction of future behavior is past behavior."

"Anchors are ubiquitous and influential."

"When we make decisions, we are in the grip of emotional and intuitive processes."

"Regression to the mean is a challenge that many people fail to recognize."

"High-stress situations cause tunnel vision and impaired thinking."

"We are all intuitive statisticians, but we are all biased intuitive statisticians."

"The most important thing to remember about the halo effect is that it is not just about appearances."