Daniel Kahneman Quotes

I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.

Concepts are mental images.

You stimulate the neo-cortex, it produces a symphony. But it's not just a symphony of perception. It's a symphony of your universe. Your reality.

I want to know how the mind works.

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.

Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

We are what we think…With our thoughts we make the world.

Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.

I'm very interested in the human mind, what's going on in there.

WHAT a person thinks is determined by HOW a person thinks.

Thought makes everything fit for use.

I enjoy hearing the way people think. I always have.

What a person thinks about determines what he is.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.

The way real memories work, from what we understand, is really complex. And it's an interconnection of different things and redundancy in the brain. So the idea of a memory existing as a little snow globe - the way we represent it in the film - is actually not scientifically accurate at all.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.