Quotes About Cognition

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.

I get a fizzy thing in my brain, like a nice glass of wine, and I want to know facts and I want to understand.

Mum had regular mental tests with her specialist, but because of her academic background, she became brilliant at manipulating them.

We're so used to the tests telling me if I'm smart or not. It's telling me if I know the material or not.

The integration of the simpler and the deeper reading processes is not automatic and requires years of learning by the novice reader, as well as extra milliseconds for any expert to read a more sophisticated text.

I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.

Some of the problem with IQ tests stems from the inescapable reality that human intelligence is staggeringly complex and multifaceted.

The problem with mental illness, as opposed to physical illness, is that it involves wrong thinking or impaired insight. You're not thinking correctly.

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.

Lógico es todo lo que se entiende aunque no sea verdad.

For it is frequently seen that our senses are masters of our reasoning, and compel it to receive impressions that it knows and judges to be false.

The same trick that the senses play on our

Your presence of mind becomes your thermostat of thought.

How is that perceiving beings can arise from out of the physical world, and how is that mentality is able seemingly to 'create' mathematical concepts out of some kind of mental model.

while we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessing the far worse effect of drink on an empty mind.

The realm of human understanding is the only realm most of us have access to," I said.

Duh du jour.

We have hearing aids in order to fix our ears. We have lasik surgery in order to fix our eyes. People ... you can't fix stupid!

I've got quite a memory. Engraved in my mind, things are. I can't forget anything...It's not a sign of intelligence...Nothing to boast about, memory...that's just how it is...

Language disguises thought.