Quotes About Cognition

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Thought tends to collect in pools.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

I lie and am lied to, but the result of my lie is mental leaps, memory, knowledge.

You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind.

For the real environment is altogether too big, too complex, and too fleeting for direct acquaintance. We are not equipped to deal with so much subtlety, so much variety, so many permutations and combinations. And although we have to act in that environment, we have to reconstruct it on a simpler model before we can manage it.

Sich daran zu erinnern, wo das Erinnerungsvermögen liegt, das kann einem auch nur in einem cerebralen Cortex passieren.

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

No obstante, e independientemente de las variaciones posibles, lo que define un tipo específico de mente es el estilo cognitivo o el modo/tendencia relativamente estable de procesar la información de una manera específica.

Contrary to my previously held belief, hunger does NOT, in fact, sharpen the mind.

She shakes her head. "No. Other people look. You see. Looking isn't the same as seeing." And with that completely bizarre statement, she gets up and leaves. My mouth falls open a little at the abruptness of it all.

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power.

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power" Alfred Whitehead math text

Light up your life by turning on your brain."

Use your thoughts so you don't atrophy the brain.

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.

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

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.

One of the significant discoveries of cognitive psychologists in recent decades is that switching from one task to another is effortful, especially under time pressure.