Daniel Kahneman Quotes

It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.

The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I like to go after the foibles, basically of beliefs that are held without question. If people still want to believe in their stuff after that, that's great - as long as they just have a chance to step back and look at it for a second. Sometimes, you don't even realize what you've been thinking for 20 years.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

The main battle is to make people realise that doubt is important. Doubt is good. The 'don't know' answer sometimes is the box you should tick, and it's about not being scared about that fact. Even the greatest minds don't know everything.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

My mind is just a product of 50 years of being taught. I'm no smarter than anyone else, but I've been taught by some wonderful people.

I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them

I'm not one of these people who thinks I know all the answers.

I hope I continue to learn. If I don't, then I know everything.

Understand that you don't know it all. You don't know anything yet. What you've been taught is great, but always go with common sense. And don't marry your first love.

No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

But an escape less self-depreciating was taken by Lord Westbury, who, it is said, rebuffed a barrister's reliance upon an earlier opinion of his Lordship: "I can only say that I am amazed that a man of my intelligence should have been guilty of giving such an opinion". If there are other ways of gracefully and good-naturedly surrendering former views to a better considered position, I invoke them all.

I love to be surprised or challenged or told that I know less than I thought that I knew. I know it's an old saw, but the older I get the less I know I know.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

I love playing a role where I think I'm right and then you learn you're not.

I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. I don't pretend to be able to write a great thesis or doctorate - I have no pretensions in that direction.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.