Daniel Kahneman

"An unbiased mind is a mind that has not been exposed to facts."

"Surprises are usually surprises because we fail to anticipate them, not because the world is fundamentally unpredictable."

"The illusion of understanding: we feel we understand how things work better than we actually do."

"Cognitive ease is the state in which System 1 is functioning well."

"The brain does not see all the possibilities when it decides."

"We cannot help but interpret the world through the lens of what we already know."

"The mind is lazy and the default is acceptance."

"To prevent errors in prediction, we should try to base our judgments on a set of recognized base rates."

"Inattentional blindness shows us that we see much less of the world than we think we do."

"Most people cannot see the invisible or do not pay attention to it."

"Intuitions come in two varieties: valid intuitions based on skill, and invalid intuitions based on heuristics."

"Luck and talent together explain the variations in outcomes in many fields."

"Our memory is reconstructive, not reproductive."

"The goal of the mind is not accuracy, it is coherence."

"We are all susceptible to the planning fallacy, and we cannot entirely escape it."

"What you see is all there is."

"The brain's tendency to connect stories is so powerful that it creates causality where none exists."