Daniel Kahneman Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

  Daniel Kahneman

  People, Mind, Quality

• If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Strong, People, First Impression

  "The Truth About How We Think". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. March 20, 2012.

• A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Believe, Past, Views

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.202, Macmillan

• 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.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Quality, Stories, Littles

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.100, Macmillan

• We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Belief, Life Is, Rejects

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.133, Macmillan

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