Quotes About Insight

Expert intuition strikes us as magical, but it is not. Indeed, each of us performs feats of intuitive expertise many times each day.

The proof that you truly understand a pattern of behavior is that you know how to reverse it.

Psychology has come a long way.

Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.

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

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behaviours than from hearing surprising facts from the behaviour of others

It is noteworthy, however, that we did not feel we needed information about other teams to make our guesses.

there is a large amount of objective ignorance in the prediction of human behavior.

Observers are less cognitively busy and more open to information than actors.

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

If the individual has relevant expertise, she will recognize the situation, and the intuitive solution that comes to her mind is likely to be correct. This

I call it theory-induced blindness: once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult to notice its flaws.

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

Amos and I stumbled on the central flaw in Bernoulli's theory by a lucky combination of skill and ignorance.

You may believe that you are subtler, more insightful, and more nuanced than the linear caricature of your thinking. But in fact, you are mostly noisier.

judgment heuristics "are quite useful, but sometimes lead to severe and systematic errors.

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

good judgments depend on what you know, how well you think, and how you think.

Daniel Kahneman is one of the most original and interesting thinkers of our time.

Ich habe herausgefunden, dass der Mensch bereit ist, Unbill zu erfahren, aber viel Erkenntnis entgeht ihm, weil er den Schmerz fürchtet.

Wer weit reise, sagte er, erfahre viele Dinge. Ein paar davon über sich selbst.

Chi viaggia in posti lontani, disse, apprende molte cose. Qualcuna anche su se stesso.

If you can keep your head while all those about you are losing theirs, then perhaps you have misunderstood the situation.