Quotes About Cognition

Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Education is the best way to relieve someone from a bad thought process.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

Every time you feel depressed about something, try to identify a corresponding negative thought you had just prior to and during the depression. Because these thoughts have actually created your bad mood, by learning to restructure them, you can change your mood.

I don't know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time.

We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.

The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,' or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things - your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs. It includes the way you interpret things - what you say. about something or someone to yourself.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

God has given each one of us a gift greater than a thousand I.B.M. machines. It is called a memory, and everything that passes through our five senses is stored in this faculty.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

Men can read maps better than women. 'Cause only the male mind could conceive of one inch equaling a hundred miles.

Long-haired Chihuahuas have no notion they are bite-sized.

But the human mind was a labyrinth with as many dead ends as thruways,

The concentration of cannabinoid receptors in the areas of the brain devoted to the higher mental processes—memory, cognition, creativity—is striking. Hemp seems custom designed to sustain our soul as well as our body.

Illusions, distortions, and self-deception appear to be integral to the way normal, well-adjusted people perceive the world. Seeing things as they really are is associated with depression and low self-esteem.

Self-awareness is a most peculiar trait among animals. Dogs will bark angrily at a mirror because they don't realize they're looking at themselves, and most other animals are similarly clueless when they're subjected to a formal procedure called the mirror test.