Kahneman, Daniel

"The mind has a tendency to make sense of information, even when it is given in a disorganized or incomplete way."

"Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, but the way to reduce it is to frame questions in terms of relative frequencies rather than single events."

"A happy life is produced by the cumulative effect of small satisfactions experienced many times a day."

"System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little effort and no sense of voluntary control."

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

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

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

"Humans are not intuitive statisticians and that our minds are not well-suited to thinking about odds and probabilities."

"When you fall in love, the whole world seems to agree that it's a grand idea."

"The effort that goals require is the price of having them."

"Anchoring effects are everywhere around us."

"The experiencing self does not have a voice that is heard."

"Bad events are more salient than good events."

"Availability bias makes dramatic events seem more probable than they are."

"People tend to assess the probability of an event by the ease with which instances come to mind."

"The halo effect means we unconsciously assume that if someone is good at one thing, they are good at everything."

"We are overconfident in our ability to predict the future."

"The best way to overcome a specific fear is to act in a way that is inconsistent with it."

"Experts are often overconfident about their predictions."

"The illusion of understanding may be one of the most widespread and costly of the cognitive biases."

"A person who has not made peace with his past will repeat it."

"Intense love is not an illusion. What is illusory is that it will persist without effort."

"Intuition may be the right place to start a diagnosis or an investigation but not where we should stop."

"Regression toward the mean is one of the most neglected principles in human intuition."

"We like to believe we are the authors of our own destiny, but we are subject to forces beyond our control."

"The power of expectations is a powerful thing."

"Happiness is not an achievement; it is a temporary state of contentment."

"Our minds seem to have a strong preference for coherence."

"Most of us are overconfident about how well we understand the world around us."

"The law of small numbers means we are apt to put too much weight on small samples."