Quotes About Mind

The reality cuts across our minds like a wound whose edges crave to heal, but cannot. Thus, one of the great sins, perhaps the great sin, is to say: It will heal; it has healed; there is no wound. There is nothing more important than this wound.

Look around you—everyone here has their own internal monologue.

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.

I just can't find the time to write my mind the way I want it to read.

Dumme Gedanken hat jeder, aber der Weise verschweigt sie.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

We have not the remotest realistic inkling of a consciousness which is not self-consciousness.

Don't let me think.

controlling thoughts and behaviors is one of the tasks that System 2 performs.

Fast thinking includes both variants of intuitive thought—the expert and the heuristic

impressions, feelings, and inclinations; when endorsed by System 2 these become beliefs, attitudes, and intentions

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

Evaluation on the GOOD–BAD dimension is an automatic operation of System 1

our mind is strongly biased toward causal explanations and does not deal well with "mere statistics.

as the psychologist Jonathan Haidt said in another context, "The emotional tail wags the rational dog.

Judgment can therefore be described as measurement in which the instrument is a human mind.

Changing one's mind about human nature is hard work, and changing one's mind for the worse about oneself is even harder. Nisbett

La probabilidad de un evento raro será sobrestimada (a menudo, no siempre) debido al sesgo confirmatorio de la memoria. Si pensamos en ese evento, intentaremos hacerlo verdadero en nuestra mente.

The question that the executive faced (should I invest in Ford stock?) was difficult, but the answer to an easier and related question (do I like Ford cars?) came readily to his mind and determined his choice. This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

Rationality is logical coherence—reasonable or not.

Risk" does not exist "out there," independent of our minds and culture, waiting to be measured. Human beings have invented the concept of "risk" to help them understand and cope with the dangers and uncertainties of life. Although these dangers are real, there is no such thing as "real risk" or "objective risk.

Changing one's mind about human nature is hard work, and changing one's mind for the worse about oneself is even harder.

cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain.