Quotes About Cognition

The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.

One of my random skills is I have a very strong memory for dialogue and moments, and I don't know why.

In order to produce the satisfaction of comprehension, there first needs to be the process of comprehension. Furthermore, the overarching idea at hand needs to be something that is actually comprehensible.

Because I think I am pretty left-brained - more than I gave myself credit for - I think I've managed to really dissect emotions. At least my own. And I've been able to understand what they do, how they do it, and when.

There are many ways in which genes influence the brain.

I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.

Poetry is a mode of consciousness.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one has given. One must have strong powers of imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality bound to the quality of the intellect.

We think too fast, even while walking or on the way, or while engaged in other things, no matter how serious the subject.

What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'.

Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.

One of Prigogine's greatest contributions has been to create a new thermodynamics to describe living systems.The organizing activity of living, selforganizing systems, finally, is cognition, or mental activity. This implies a radically new concept of mind, which was first proposed by Gregory Bateson. Mental process is defined as the organizing activity of life. This means that all interactions of a living system with its environment are cognitive, or mental interactions.

The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

The intelligentsia are those who have been educated beyond their intelligence.

numbed brain a few seconds to process the information.

a hitetlenség erÅ'sebb a hitnél, mert az érzékekre támaszkodik.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.

Intelligence officers are a peculiar lot. Whether they are active or retired, their brains are wired for a completely different way of seeing the world around them.

It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.