If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.

Daniel Kahneman
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  2. Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling - Tony Deliso

  3. Don’t come back when you realize that I’m rare - Genereux Philip

  4. If where we are now and whatever we are going through does not motivate us to leave this world better than the way we met it, we are in this world for wrong reasons. - Bamigboye Olurotimi

  5. Why do you feel so powerless? Go spend an hour with ants. Each of those black specks you see is a life. One whole life that you can save, take, or affect in some way. You have the power to make so many lives better.... - Kamand Kojouri

More Quotes By Daniel Kahneman
  1. Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

  2. 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.

  3. We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

  4. The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.

  5. ...the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is understood more easily if it describes what an agent (system 2) does than if it describes what something is, what properties it has.

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