Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.
Interpretation
Intelligence encompasses both reasoning skills and the ability to access and focus on relevant information.
This quote by Daniel Kahneman emphasizes that intelligence is not solely about logical reasoning or problem-solving; it also involves the capacity to retrieve pertinent information from memory and to concentrate one's attention effectively. This highlights the multifaceted nature of intelligence, where both cognitive skills and attentional control play crucial roles in informed decision-making.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about the nature of intelligence in an educational seminar.
We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.
The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.
Laziness is built deep into our nature.
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.
In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.
First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will. Next, assert what we really are-existence, knowledge, and bliss-being, knowing, and loving.
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
All too often, we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.