Famous Daniel Kahneman Quotes

  • There’s a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make. – Daniel Kahneman

    There’s a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.– Daniel Kahneman

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

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

  • Many parents have discovered, perhaps with some guilt, that they can read a story to a child while thinking of something else. – Daniel Kahneman

    Many parents have discovered, perhaps with some guilt, that they can read a story to a child while thinking of something else.– Daniel Kahneman

  • Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it. – Daniel Kahneman

    Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.– Daniel Kahneman

  • 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. – Daniel Kahneman

    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.– Daniel Kahneman

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

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

  • The ‘Instagram Generation’ now experiences the present as an anticipated memory. – Daniel Kahneman

    The ‘Instagram Generation’ now experiences the present as an anticipated memory.– Daniel Kahneman

  • The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained. – Daniel Kahneman

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

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

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

  • You think with your body, not with your brain. – Daniel Kahneman

    You think with your body, not with your brain.– Daniel Kahneman