Daniel Kahneman Quotes

The statesman must weigh the rewards of success against the penalties of failure. And he is permitted only one guess.

No man is infallible.

We're far from perfect. It's a human enterprise.

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

No one is always right.

But what if our intelligence is wrong?

The pressure of time, is the overwhelming challenge for policymakers who must act on assessments that cannot be proved at the time and whose mistakes are irretrievable.

No one's memory is infallible, of course - quite the opposite.

Not everybody is right all the time.

We have to make judgments on the individual players and we're not always going to be right.

Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

The wisest of the wise may err.

My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.

Humans make mistakes.

The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.

Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.

Every human being makes mistakes.

We are none of us infallible not even the youngest of us.

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.

It's tough never being right.

I'm not a God, I make mistakes.

But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.