BEST Daniel Kahneman Books & Quotes of All Time (February 2023)

by Arthur Worsley
M.A. Psychology, Oxford. McKinsey Alum. Founder & Editor at TAoL.

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Contents

1. Who Is Daniel Kahneman?

2. The Best Daniel Kahneman Books of All Time

3. More Books Like Daniel Kahneman's Books

4. Best Daniel Kahneman Quotes

5. Wish There Was a Faster/Easier Way?

Who Is Daniel Kahneman?

Daniel Kahneman (born March 5, 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Vernon L. Smith). His empirical findings challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory.

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The Best Daniel Kahneman Books of All Time

Why these best Daniel Kahneman books and not others? To stay objective, I rank all my book recommendations by a combination of what’s most loved (Goodreads rating), what’s most popular (Goodreads review count) and what’s proven timlessly relevant (first publication date).

This isn’t a whimsical list. It’s a data-driven, crowdsourced collection of the best Daniel Kahneman books ever published as decided by book lovers like you.

And if you think something's missing? I LOVE book recommendations so if there are any other books by Daniel Kahneman that you think deserve mentioning, email me and I’ll be sure to include them in the next round of updates.

Until then, here are the best Daniel Kahneman books of all time...

Best Daniel Kahneman Books: Thinking, Fast and Slow

1. Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman (FREE Summary)

Thinking Fast and Slow is a ground-breaking, best-selling exploration of the two cognitive systems that shape how we think and the cognitive biases that guide our everyday decision-making and wellbeing - by Nobel Prize winning behavioral psychologist, Daniel Kahneman.

Published 2011 // 499 pages // Rated 4.2 over 364,400 reviews on Goodreads

2. Noise - Daniel Kahneman

A Flaw in Human Judgment

Published 2021 // 454 pages // Rated 3.7 over 5,800 reviews on Goodreads

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Best Daniel Kahneman Quotes

Here are some of the best Daniel Kahneman of all time...

"A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact."

- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it."

- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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

- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do."

- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed."

- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"A single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches."

- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the [misleading] ease with which the past is explained."

- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"The gorilla study illustrates two important facts about our minds: we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness."

- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition."

- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution."

- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Many people are overconfident, prone to place too much faith in their intuitions. They apparently find cognitive effort at least mildly unpleasant and avoid it as much as possible."

- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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