The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed.… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We're not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds,… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“People who are poor think like traders, but the dynamics are quite different. Unlike traders, the poor are not indifferent to the differences between… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“So this is my aim for watercooler conversations: improve the ability to identify and understand errors of judgment and choice, in others and eventually… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“For example, I recently came to doubt my long-held impression that adultery is more common among politicians than among physicians or lawyers.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long;… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
