Tversky, Amos

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."

"Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition."

"People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory."

"The illusion of understanding."

"We overestimate our ability to control outcomes."

"Cognitive biases are built into our system of thinking."

"The availability heuristic distorts our perception of reality."

"Our fears are more vivid than our hopes."

"Humans are not rational beings; we are rationalizing beings."

"We live in stories more than facts."

"The anchoring effect shapes all our decisions."

"Most people are overconfident about their judgments."

"Expertise is recognizing what you do not know."

"Loss looms larger than gain."

"We are slaves to our first impressions."

"Framing effects determine our choices."

"Pattern recognition is both our greatest strength and weakness."

"Memory is reconstruction, not reproduction."

"Randomness is hardwired into nature."

"We see patterns where none exist."

"The representativeness heuristic leads us astray."

"Probability is counterintuitive to the human mind."

"Our choices reveal our preferences, not our values."

"Sunk costs haunt our decisions."

"We are wired for narrative, not statistics."

"Confidence is not correlated with accuracy."

"The conjunction fallacy reflects our intuitive thinking."

"We underestimate the role of luck in success."