Amos Tversky Quotes

#1. Isn't the initial loss that does for him, but the stupid plays he makes in an effort to deny that the loss has happened. The great economic psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky summarised the behaviour in their classic analysis of the psychology of risk:

Tim Harford

#2. The psychologists Daniel Kahnerman and Amos Tversky have shown when humans estimate the likelihood or frequency of an event, we make that judgment based not on how often the event has actually occurred, but on how vivid the past examples are.

Benjamin Graham

#3. Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.

Jack Levin

#4. When lies are swarming and attacking me like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes, the best thing I can do is open God's Word and immerse myself in His truth. Lies flee in the presence of truth.

Lysa TerKeurst

#5. My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence; me, I study natural stupidity.

Amos Tversky

#6. Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.

Amos Tversky

#7. Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.

Abel Bonnard

#8. Amos believed that people go way out of their way to avoid minor embarrassments and he decided very early on in his life that it was not worth it.

Amos Tversky

#9. It scares me how fast I go from disliking to loving him, and I wonder if it's this way for everyone.

Melissa Bank

#10. God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

Billy Graham

#11. She was cool -
the whole world
seemed
to spin around her
in smooth jazz.

Atticus Poetry

#12. The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.

Vance Havner

#13. Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.

Amos Tversky

#14. For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

George Herbert

#15. Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

#16. It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.

Amos Tversky

#17. [Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.

Amos Tversky

#18. The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.

Thomas Merton

#19. Love. Comfort. I didn't know what those were, but I wanted them. I would have them. I closed the distance and snapped the man's neck.
As the third corpse dropped to the floor at my feet, the Matriarch smiled.

S.J. Kincaid

#20. You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.

Corrine Brown

#21. Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.

Albert Memmi

#22. The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

Jim DeMint

#23. But it was a rich, picture-perfect, it-can't-happen-here kind of suburb where people had gone, not to deal with life's problems, but to avoid them.

Richard Peck