Daniel Kahneman

"The mind is designed to feel regret, especially about inactions."

"Overconfidence in the markets is a persistent phenomenon across all investors."

"We are pattern-seeking creatures in a chaotic, largely random world."

"The experiencing self is who we are; the remembering self is who we become."

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

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

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

"The experiencing self does not have a voice that is heard when its interests conflict with the interests of the remembering self."

"Overconfidence is a common feature of human behavior."

"We tend to be overly optimistic about the future and our ability to control it."

"The illusion of understanding is partly about ease of processing in the mind."

"People are generally poor at thinking about probabilities and risk."

"Humans are unreliable at considering statistical evidence."

"Most of what we believe about ourselves is not necessarily true."

"Anchoring effects are very difficult to overcome even when we are aware of them."

"The more you know, the more you realize how little you understand."

"Bad events have more psychological impact than good events."

"We live in a world where we are constrained by our cognitive abilities."

"The planning fallacy affects us all—we consistently underestimate how long tasks will take."

"Hindsight bias makes us believe past events were more predictable than they actually were."

"The halo effect causes us to see people in an overly positive or negative light based on one trait."

"We are all victims of cognitive biases that we cannot fully control."

"Money does buy happiness, but only up to a point where basic needs are met."

"Intuition can sometimes be wrong, even when it feels very certain."

"The way choices are presented to us influences our decisions more than we realize."

"Our memories are not accurate recordings of events but reconstructions prone to error."

"We are more influenced by recent events than overall patterns when making judgments."

"Availability bias makes us overestimate the frequency of vivid or recent events."

"The representativeness heuristic leads us to make faulty statistical judgments."

"Loss aversion means we feel the pain of loss more intensely than the pleasure of equivalent gain."