Daniel Kahneman Quotes

15 quotes

Israeli-American psychologist and economist (1934–2024)

“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”

"True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes."

on Wisdom

"The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works."

on Perception

"The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained."

on Philosophy

"Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me."

on Identity

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

on Life

"When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important."

on Happiness

"The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact."

on Wisdom

"The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory."

on Social Media

"Most important, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero."

on Life

"Freedom has a cost, which is borne by individuals who make bad choices, and by a society that feels obligated to help them."

on Freedom

"It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient."

on Mental Health

"The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own."

on Wisdom

"We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero."

on Life

"You think with your body, not with your brain."

on Philosophy