Quotes About Understanding

you often have answers to questions that you do not completely understand, relying on evidence that you can neither explain nor defend.

Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.

coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it.

knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

the recommendations of Nudge require firms to offer contracts that are sufficiently simple to be read and understood by Human customers.

It explains why we can think fast, and how we are able to make sense of partial information in a complex world.

System 2 is activated when an event is detected that violates the model of the world that System 1

The core of the illusion is that we believe we understand the past, which implies that the future also should be knowable, but in fact we understand the past less than we believe we do.

We were sufficiently similar to understand each other easily, and sufficiently different to surprise each other.

Happiness does not have a simple meaning and should not be used as if it does.

It is difficult to imagine people lining up at airport bookstores to buy a book that enthusiastically describes the practices of business leaders who, on average, do somewhat better than chance. Consumers have a hunger for a clear message about the determinants of success and failure in business, and they need stories that offer a sense of understanding, however illusory.

can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

We will not learn to understand regression from experience. Even when a regression is identified, as we saw in the story of the flight instructors, it will be given a causal interpretation that is almost always wrong.

Risk" does not exist "out there," independent of our minds and culture, waiting to be measured. Human beings have invented the concept of "risk" to help them understand and cope with the dangers and uncertainties of life.

you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

A veces haremos más que los demás, pero es útil saber que posiblemente tengamos esa sensación cuando cada miembro del equipo también la tiene.

even sophisticated researchers have poor intuitions and a wobbly understanding of sampling effects.

Good stories provide a simple and coherent account of people's actions and intentions.

neither of us ever rejected out of hand anything the other said.

Consumers have a hunger for a clear message about the determinants of success and failure in business, and they need stories that offer a sense of understanding, however illusory.

if we want people to feel that they have been treated with respect and dignity, we might have to tolerate some noise.

Something is still missing from this story: the answers need to be fitted to the original questions.

our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance

It is more useful to pay attention to people who disagree with you than to pay attention to those who agree.