Dan Ariely Quotes

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

No man is infallible.

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.

I think people have all faced decisions at times where you never know.

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

I guess we guess our way through life. How many times do we really know for sure?

Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perfect.

No matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

Life's most important questions are, for the most part, nothing but probability problems.

If you make enough decisions in life, you’re bound to make some of them wrong.

I hope, George, that you know what you're doing.

Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.

My experience would say to me, never presume to have an answer to what the people are actually going to do.

People who are great at making decisions in the face of uncertainty have great judgment.

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.

To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.