Daniel Kahneman Quotes

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.

Nobody is going to believe what you're saying if you don't believe it yourself.

You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.

Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

I'm not cocky. But I'm very confident.

If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.

I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

The facts are on our side.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

All I have is the truth, and I've proven that.

There's something you do when you're completely confident that just can't be replicated when you know you're doing something wrong.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

To be persuasive we must be believable. To be believable, we must be truthful.

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.

When truth is on your side, you don't need support.

Everything that I can do to ground the story in reality helps make it harder for people to be dismissive of it.

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.

I never second-guess myself.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller should tell it.

I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.

VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)