Daniel Kahneman Quotes

I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

I'm not very wise to many things.

I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

If you're a humble person, and you walk in, and you start talking, people are going to be able to tell. You can't fake it.

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to.

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

People ask me a question, I'll give them my opinion. I never claimed to have all the answers.

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.

I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.

I'm no saint. I'm no angel. I never proclaimed to be.

I know I'm not perfect.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.