Daniel Kahneman Quotes

I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

[...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!” “Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.

My mother used to say, "Tell your brain you want that piece of information or you want to solve this problem, and then just walk away from it. Just forget about it. Just do something else, completely distract yourself, and you'll see, it's like a computer. Eventually, it will deliver it up." And I find that's really true.

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason

Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.

Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.

Attention to detail - Sherlock certainly has that, and my memory is pretty good - but not as good as his.

Memory is a big one: our ability to use the memory and move things in and out efficiently - that affected what we were able to do more than anything.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, whereas consciousness is the ability to feel things such as pain, joy, love, and anger. Throughout history, intelligence always went hand in hand with consciousness.

I'm no scientist, but I'll dare extrapolate and say that it's pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the smarter you are!

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember.

If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it.

I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

I've always wanted the IQ of a rock. No, wait. That would be an insult to the rock.