Quotes About Cognition

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

Autism typically means a person may not be fully aware of the consequences of their actions, or understand the consequences of their behaviour on others.

Familiarize yourself with the parts of your brain and their function.

As an ex-programmer, I'm still just curious about how the brain functions, how that flow of information really happens.

To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.

I think I fundamentally understand the way Trump thinks.

Une tête bien faite et une tête bien pleine (kepala yang baik adalah kepala yang penuh dengan ilmu pengetahuan

One of her favorite fancies was that on "the outside," as she called it, thoughts were waiting for people to call them.

Studying Latin can teach you how to think analytically.

L'intelligence ne se définit plus comme une faculté de résoudre un problème, mais comme celle de pénétrer un monde partagé.

How easy it was to mistake clear reasoning for correct reasoning!

The mystery of consciousness? Erroneous data—significant results.

Paul sat back. He had used the questions and hyperawareness to do what his mother called "registering" the person. He had Kynes now—tone of voice, each detail of face and gesture.

And Jessica, noting the words and manner, caught the deeper implications in the phrase, "the body's water.

The thought hung like a sine wave in Leto's mind:

How the mind gears itself for its environment

Mentat, solve thyself, he thought.

to be conscious by choice

each of the 6 billion human brains on the Earth.

Psychologists have suggested we have two systems of thinking, one intuitive and one analytical, both of which can lead us to make serious cognitive mistakes.

It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.

Zijn hersens kenden fijnere nuances dan moderne hersens kunnen bevatten.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.