# Thinking, Fast and Slow - Author: [Daniel Kahneman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman.md) - Quotes: 20 - Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow ## Quotes > disbelief is not an option. The results are not made up, nor are they statistical flukes. You have no choice but to accept that the major conclusions of these studies are true. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/disbelief-is-not.md) > There is no evidence that risk takers in the economic domain have an unusual appetite for gambles on high stakes; they are merely less aware of risks than more timid people are. p. 263 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/there-is-no-evidence.md) > He's taking an inside view. He should forget about his own case and look for what happened in other cases. p. 254 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/hes-taking-an-inside.md) > It took Francis Galton several years to figure out that and regression are not two concepts – they are different perspectives on the same concept. The general rule is straightforward but has surprising consequences: whenever the correlation between two scores is imperfect, there will be regression to the mean. p. 181 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/it-took-francis.md) > Unless there is an obvious reason to do otherwise, most of us passively accept decision problems as they are framed and therefore rarely have an opportunity to discover the extent to which our preferences are frame-bound rather than reality-bound. p. 367 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/unless-there-is-an-obvious.md) > A plausible interpretation is that higher income is associated with a reduced ability to enjoy the small pleasures of life. [...] There is a clear contrast between the effects of income on experienced well-being and in life satisfaction. Higher income brings with it higher satisfaction, well beyond the point at which it ceases to have any positive effect on experience. [...] Life satisfaction is not a flawed measure of their experienced well-being, as I thought some years ago. It is something else entirely. p. 397 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/a-plausible-interpretation.md) > A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. p. 62 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/a-reliable-way.md) > Many unfortunate human situations unfold [...] where people who face very bad options take desperate gambles, accepting a high probability of making things worse in exchange for a small hope of avoiding a large loss. Risk taking of this kind often turns manageable failures into disasters. p. 318 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/many-unfortunate-human.md) > Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed. p. 46 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/intelligence-is-not.md) > Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it. p. 402 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/nothing-in-life.md) > Experienced well-being is on average unaffected by marriage, not because marriage makes no difference to happiness, but because it changes some aspects of life for the better and others for the worse. p. 400 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/experienced-well-being-is-on-average.md) > A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome. p. 9 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/a-recurrent-theme.md) > Although humans are not irrational, they often need help to make more accurate judgements and better decisions. [...] [They] also need protection from others who deliberately exploit their weaknesses [...]. p. 411 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/although-humans-are.md) > The lesson is clear: estimates of causes of death are warped by media coverage. [...] The world in our heads is not a precise replica of reality; our expectations about the frequency of events are distorted by the prevalence and emotional intensity of the messages to which we are exposed. p. 138 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/the-lesson-is-clear.md) > Subjective confidence in a judgement is not a reasoned evaluation of the probability that this judgement is correct. Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true. p. 212 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/subjective-confidence-in-a-judgement.md) > He weights losses about twice as much as gains, which is normal. p. 288 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/he-weights-losses.md) > There is a deep gap between our thinking about statistics and our thinking about individual cases. p. 174 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/there-is-a-deep.md) > A rare event will be overweighted if it specifically attracts attention. [...] And when there is no overweighting, there will be neglect. p. 333 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/a-rare-event.md) > It is the of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern. p. 87 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/it-is-the.md) > Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance. p. 201 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/our-comforting-conviction.md)