Daniel Kahneman

"The impact bias makes us overestimate how long emotions will last."

"We engage in motivated reasoning, finding arguments that support what we want to believe."

"System 1 thinking is fast and automatic but prone to systematic errors."

"We are more influenced by vivid examples than by statistical facts."

"The curse of knowledge makes experts assume things are easier than they actually are for novices."

"Our brains are not designed for statistical thinking; they are designed for survival."

"We overestimate the predictability of the future based on current trends."

"Cognitive biases are not flaws that can be easily overcome but features of the human mind."

"Money increases happiness up to a point, but then the effect diminishes rapidly."

"We consistently overestimate our ability to control events and resist randomness."

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

"We are more concerned with relative position than absolute well-being."

"Social comparison is a fundamental human drive that shapes our happiness."

"Unexpected events have less emotional impact than anticipated events."

"We rationalize our choices after the fact, constructing reasons that feel authentic."

"The spotlight effect makes us overestimate how much others notice our mistakes and appearance."

"Our memories are reconstructed each time we recall them, not retrieved intact."

"We attribute our own failures to circumstances but others' failures to their character."

"The availability heuristic makes recent tragedies seem more common than they are."

"We are driven to find patterns and meaning, even in pure randomness."

"Overconfidence is universal; it afflicts experts and novices alike."

"We make better decisions when we are aware of our biases, though awareness alone is not sufficient."

"The way a problem is framed determines the solution more than the problem itself."

"We use heuristics because they are efficient, accepting some errors as the cost of speed."

"Emotions and reason are not opposites but intertwined in decision-making."

"We are poor at understanding how our minds work, even as our minds operate."

"The experiencing self and the remembering self want different things."

"Persistence of intuitive biases is remarkable given how much evidence against them we accumulate."

"We construct our identity through narratives that are more malleable than they feel."

"Random variations in life outcomes are more common than we acknowledge."