Kenneth E. Boulding Quotes About Decisions

Quotes about: Decisions

• [There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Men, Decision, Study

  "Contemporary Economic Research" by Kenneth Boulding in "Trends in Social Science" edited by Donald P. Ray (pp. 9-26), 1958.

• The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. It is the great task of human knowledge to bridge this gap and to find those patterns in the past which can be projected into the future as realistic images.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Past, Bridges, Decision

  Foreword of "The image of the future" by Fred Polak, (p. V), 1972.

• The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Moving, Decision, World

• The human experience can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all decisions are of the past, all decisions are about the future. The image of the future, therefore, is the key to all choice-oriented behavior. The character and quality of the images of the future which prevail in a society is therefore the most important clue to its overall dynamics.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Character, Past, Keys

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