Quotes About Awareness

You can effortlessly look up accident statistics on the Web, but they do not easily come to mind. Note

This example not only gives us an idea of harm done by those who intervene, but, worse, it illustrates the lack of awareness of the need to look for a break-even point between benefits and harm.

Having spent a couple of decades in this mind-set, I am convinced (but cannot prove) that training and education can help us avoid its pitfalls.

We remember the martyrs who died for a cause that we knew about, never those no less effective in their contribution but whose cause we were never aware of—precisely because they were successful.

We do not spontaneously learn that we don't learn that we don't learn.

best way to detect a sucker is to see if his focus is on the size of the theater rather than that of the door.

just as with the color blue, having a word for something helps spread awareness of it.

Most people in the real world don't obsess over it.

minimize time spent reading newspapers

That awareness of a problem does not mean much—particularly when you have special interests and self-serving institutions in play.

My problem is that I am not rational and I am extremely prone to drown in randomness and to incur emotional torture. I am aware of my need to ruminate on park benches and in cafés away from information, but I can only do so if I am somewhat deprived of it. My sole advantage in life is that I know some of my weaknesses, mostly that I am incapable of taming my emotions facing news and incapable of seeing a performance with a clear head. Silence is far better.

so your mood is propped up by visible continuous feedback.

why does reading the newspaper actually decrease your knowledge of the world?

What is surprising is not the magnitude of our forecast errors, but our absence of awareness of it. This

It is often said that "is wise he who can see things coming." Perhaps the wise one is the one who knows that he cannot see things far away.

Consider that thinking is time-consuming and generally a great waste of energy

their intuition getting in the way and blinding them.

we are simply not wise enough to be trusted with knowledge.

The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.

that we generally take risks not out of bravado but out of ignorance and blindness to probability!

There are traps built into any kind of knowledge gained from observation

Remain sober and remember to watch out).

My being here is a consequential low-probability occurrence, and I tend to forget it.

which requires day-to-day monitoring.