"Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance."

--

Source : Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.230, Macmillan

Daniel Kahneman

#Ignorance Quotes #Comforting Quotes #Foundation Quotes

“William Ewart Gladstone is credited with the credo that a prime minister must be a "good butcher." The metaphor is apt insofar as the root of the word "decision" is "to cut."”
“There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.”

Source : Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics
“[My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact that you could be this fabulous visual artist, with all this milieu of people like Diego Rivera and you could sleep with these gorgeous, amazing women, that you could live that life - that photography could deliver you that life.”
“There will be sex after death, we just won't be able to feel it.”
“Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.”
“But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then?”
“You can't have an honest fourth grade school teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Johnny, your son, your only child, the fruit of your loin, is a moron. I have no idea how this kid finds a door to get out of the house in the morning. If I were you, I would waste him and start over. Now, I say that with all due respect.”
“My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all.”

You may also like:

Amos Tversky
Cognitive Psychologist
Dan Ariely
Professor
Gary Becker
Economist
Gerd Gigerenzer
Psychologist
Herbert Simon
Scientist
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author
Richard Thaler
Economist
Steven Levitt
Economist
Thomas Gilovich
Professor