Daniel Kahneman Past Quotations

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

We're not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds, reconstruct their past opinion - they believe they always thought that.

I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.

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

A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.