Daniel Kahneman Quotes

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

I think one of the major misconceptions about me is that I live my life the way people think I lead my life, with hot and cold drinks running everywhere and a party all the time. They think of my life in terms of certain excesses that don't really exist. Things are actually fairly simple.

I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

I'm very much known as being the smiley girl, and unfortunately, lightness can be mistaken for stupidity or someone with no depth.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

I think the most fundamental error we make is mistaking a noisy, anomalous event for the norm. This happens all the time - in the stock market, in reports of crime and natural disaster, etc. The fact is that big, noisy, anomalous events catch our attention because they're anomalous, which isn't a problem in and of itself.

Most of us think that we are 'better than average' in most things. We are also 'miscalibrated,' meaning that our sense of the probability of events doesn't line up with reality. When we say we are sure about a certain fact, for example, we may well be right only half the time.

I understand the difference between perception and reality.