Daniel Kahneman Quotes

Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.

All human affairs are ever in a state of flux and cannot stand still, either there will be improvement or decline.

Hope and certainty are the enemies of peace.

It’s hard letting go in the past when there are no firm handholds in the future.

Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it's getting worse.

I do not believe as Martin Luther King did, that the arc of history bends towards justice. I see the arc of history bending towards chaos or the unknown.

If you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

If you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

One thing you can rely on is that there will always be uncertainty.

I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse.

I hope that something better comes along.

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

And I can't wait to see where the road leads from here.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

Some people just don't want to see change, but thankfully there are a lot of people more optimistic for something new in music, even with the bigger picture like with Obama getting elected.

When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim.

It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.

Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.

I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.