Tversky, Amos

"What we remember about our past shapes not only our present but also our future."

"Expertise is understanding the exceptions to the rule, not just the rule itself."

"We are prisoners of our own mental categories."

"The world is not as just as we believe it to be."

"To assume that others think as we do is the first step toward misunderstanding."

"We succeed not because we know the right answer, but because we ask the right questions."

"Overconfidence is the natural state of the human mind."

"What feels true is not always what is true."

"We are all heuristic creatures in a complex world."

"The gap between our aspirations and our reality is where growth lives."

"We cannot always trust our eyes to see what is there."

"Confidence and competence are not always correlated."

"The human mind is a magnificent organ, but it is not built for truth—it is built for survival."

"We predict too much and explain too little."

"The curse of knowledge is that once we know something, we cannot imagine what it was like not to know it."

"Risk is measured not by the severity of consequences but by the probability of harm."

"We are not as rational as we think we are, and that is perhaps our saving grace."

"The mind makes sense of chaos by creating patterns, even when none exist."

"Happiness is not the absence of problems but the freedom to choose them."

"We see what we expect to see and ignore what we do not expect to see."

"The best predictor of future behavior is not intention but past behavior."

"Our judgments are shaped not by facts but by the stories we tell ourselves."

"To understand a person is to understand their biases."

"We are all hostage to our own mental frameworks."

"The difference between a good decision and a bad one is often just luck."

"We believe in the power of individual effort while underestimating the power of circumstance."

"The mind is an instrument of both enlightenment and deception."

"To change how you feel, sometimes you must first change how you think."

"We are creatures of habit and habit is the enemy of growth."

"What we call intuition is often just pattern recognition operating below consciousness."