Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.

A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.

The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.

The agent of economic theory is rational, selfish, and his tastes do not change.

The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.

Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

Familiarity breeds liking.

People who ... assess probability are not stumped ... they do not ... judge ... as statisticians and philosophers.

Plans are best-case scenarios.

Highly unlikely events are either ignored or overweighted.

The agent of economic theory is rational, selfish, and his tastes do not change.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.