Wisdom Quotes

"The way we frame options changes everything about our choices."

"We are not rational creatures - we are irrational creatures who want to believe we are rational."

"We are slaves to our emotions, not the other way around."

"The context in which we see things affects how we perceive them."

"We make decisions based on what we see right in front of us, not on what we should be thinking about."

"Our emotions override our logic more often than we admit."

"We are more influenced by social norms than by any rational calculation."

"We are bad at predicting what will make us happy."

"We are blind to our own blindness."

"We underestimate how much our environment shapes our behavior."

"The power of suggestion is far greater than we acknowledge."

"The greatest trick the mind plays on us is convincing us we're rational."

"We are capable of ignoring evidence that contradicts our beliefs."

"Emotions are not obstacles to reason; they are forms of intelligence."

"Practical wisdom involves knowing how to balance competing values."

"Practical reasoning about the good life cannot be reduced to calculations."

"The emotions reveal to us what we care about and value."

"The emotions are not irrational; they embed judgments about value."

"The search for certainty can blind us to human complexity and particularity."

"Rational discourse requires conditions of equality and freedom from domination."

"The universal is always mediated through the particular and vice versa."

"Ethical judgment cannot be reduced to abstract rules but requires situated understanding."

"Intercultural understanding requires humility about the limits of our own perspective."

"Feminist philosophy reveals the gendered nature of supposedly universal concepts."

"Discourse ethics insists on the equality and freedom of all who participate in conversation."

"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."

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

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

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

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