Daniel Kahneman Quotes

How did they know?.

I feel like I've dreamed half of my life that hasn't happened yet, so a lot of times I'm going along, and I do stuff, and I know that I've done it. I have deja vus more than I have regular experiences. If half of your day is a deja vu, then you start to wonder, 'What is real and what isn't?'

Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.

We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

Intellect confuses intuition.

She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be.

Dude, are my eyes seeing what my brain is telling my eyes that they're seeing?

Everything I see is something I haven't memorized.

How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?

This can't be true but I remember it.

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

Even though he was here, she couldn't quite process it. She squeered her eyes shut before opening them again. Yep, still there. Amazing.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

I knew it would be you

All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.

Dmitri was at a total loss. It was a common reaction for people when I agreed to do something reasonable.

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

The more I see, the less I know.

Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin.

This clarity made me able to behave normally, which posed some interesting questions. Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? If some people didn't see these things, what was the matter with them? Were they blind or something? These questions had me unsettled.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.