"Thinking, Fast and Slow" Quotes
"Thinking, Fast and Slow" explores the dual systems of thought that drive our decisions: the fast, intuitive, and emotional system and the slow, deliberate, and analytical system.
nonfiction | 499 pages | Published in 2011
Quotes
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it.
The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.
We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.
The mind that makes up stories is not to be trusted.
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.
Risk is a human construct, not an objective fact.
The experiencing self does not have a voice. The remembering self is sometimes wrong, but it is the one that keeps score and governs what we learn from living.
