Quotes About Thinking

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think...and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality.

How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or American democracy?' Your Christian love and your socialism and your American democracy are what you do each day, your manner of thinking each hour, of embracing your life companion and loving your child; they are your attitude of social responsibility towards your work, and your determination not to become like the crushers of life you so hate.

Seninle ayn? masaya oturan ya da seninle ayn? evde ya?ayan birinin herhangi bir büyük i? ba?araca??na inanamazs?n. Senin yak?n çevrende, küçük adam, dü?ünmek çok güçtür; insan ancak sana dair dü?ünür, seninle birlikte de?il. Çünkü büyük dü?ünceleri, geni? kapsaml? dü?ünceleri g?rtlaklars?n sen.

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

My experience is that I can think while strolling but cannot engage in mental work that imposes a heavy load on short-term memory.

One of the main functions of System 2 is to monitor and control thoughts and actions "suggested" by System 1

Judgment is not a synonym for thinking, and making accurate judgments is not a synonym for having good judgment.

The technical definition of heuristic is a simple procedure that helps find adequate, though often imperfect, answers to difficult questions. The

To think clearly about the future, we need to clean up the language that we use in labeling the beliefs we had in the past.

As I described earlier, System 1 is not prone to doubt. It suppresses ambiguity and spontaneously constructs stories that are as coherent as possible. Unless the message is immediately negated, the associations that it evokes will spread as if the message were true. System 2 is capable of doubt, because it can maintain incompatible possibilities at the same time.

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

Considering how little we know, the confidence we have in our beliefs is preposterous—and it is also essential.

It is normally easy and actually quite pleasant to walk and think at the same time, but at the extremes these activities appear to compete for the limited resources of System 2. You can confirm this claim by a simple experiment. While walking comfortably with a friend, ask him to compute 23 × 78 in his head, and to do so immediately. He will almost certainly stop in his tracks.

the prediction of the future is not distinguished from an evaluation of current evidence—prediction matches evaluation. This is perhaps the best evidence we have for the role of substitution.

System 1 is gullible and biased to believe, System 2 is in charge of doubting and unbelieving, but System 2 is sometimes busy, and often lazy.

It appears to be a feature of System 1 that cognitive ease is associated with good feelings.

Why call them System 1 and System 2 rather than the more descriptive "automatic system" and "effortful system"? The reason is simple: "Automatic system" takes longer to say than "System 1" and therefore takes more space in your working memory. This matters, because anything that occupies your working memory reduces your ability to think.

The spontaneous search for an intuitive solution sometimes fails—neither an expert solution nor a heuristic answer comes to mind. In such cases we often find ourselves switching to a slower, more deliberate and effortful form of thinking. This is the slow thinking of the title. Fast thinking includes both variants of intuitive

Most of this book is about the workings of System 1 and the mutual influences between it and System 2.

Why is it so difficult for us to think statistically? We easily think associatively, we think metaphorically, we think causally, but statistics requires thinking about many things at once, which is something that System 1 is not designed to do.