Daniel Kahneman Inspirational Quotes (124)

When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant.

Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true.

Most things that couples disagree upon aren't worth more than a day's combat.