Kahneman, Daniel

"The concept of normal has more influence on our behavior than we realize."

"Analogical thinking can be insightful but also dangerously misleading."

"The quality of a decision should be judged before the outcome is known, not after."

"We adapt to changes more quickly than we think we will."

"The correlation between variables is often weaker than our intuitions suggest."

"Surprises occur less often than expected because we are usually right about the future."

"Grand outcomes in life are usually determined by a few key decisions."

"Our minds have a tendency to make things cohere and tell coherent stories."

"The value of information is not its existence but its usefulness in decisions."

"Experience is not the best teacher because we don't always learn the right lessons."

"The experiencing self does not have a voice that is heard in the part of my mind that makes decisions about how to live."

"We can be blind to the obvious, and blind to our blindness."

"Overconfidence is a more persistent problem than pessimism."

"A simple way to take people out of their head is to get them to move their body."

"The planning fallacy is that we plan as if we are an exception to the base rate."

"System 1 operates automatically and quickly with little effort."

"We are prone to over-invest in unlikely scenarios."

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

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

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

"Bad events have more impact than good events."

"The mind takes shortcuts that are pretty good, but not always right."

"Anchoring effects influence judgments even when we are aware of them and try to resist them."

"You cannot help concluding that the human mind is prone to significant error."

"When you change how you measure something, you change what people do."

"There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong."

"The most important thing is that people believe what they believe."

"People are overconfident in their beliefs about the future."

"Psychological experiments rarely measure what they intend to measure."

"We are generally confident in our intuitive judgments, even though we know these judgments are often wrong."