# Quote — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

> 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.

- Author: [Daniel Kahneman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman.md)
- Book: [Thinking, Fast and Slow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow.md)
- Page: 212
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-kahneman/thinking-fast-and-slow/subjective-confidence-in-a-judgement

## More from this book

> 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)