Quotes About Cognition

People make their decisions based on what the facts mean to them, not on the facts themselves

A free mind will out-think a controlled mind every time.

You have 100,000 times more synapses in your brain than sensory receptors in your body. Therefore, you are roughly 100,000 times better equipped to experience a world that does not exist than a world that does.

This mish mash of three brains, called the lizard-squirrel-monkey brain, all trying to function at once is one reason why we're nuts.

Much of what you see out there is manufactured by your brain, painted in like computer-generated graphics in a movie; only a very small part of the inputs to your occipital lobe comes directly from the external world, the rest comes from internal memory stores and other processes.

Changing the way you think changes the chemicals in your brain. For

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Every woman knows all about everything.

After all, most of living has to happen in the mind.

Self-awareness ? Inhibition ? Nonverbal working memory ? Verbal working memory ? Emotion regulation ? Self-motivation

Variously called productive failure, invention learning, or desirable difficulties, the proposed benefits of starting with a problem include: • activating prior knowledge related to new skills • combating student perceptions that the content is easy to learn • creating a moment of need, making students more receptive to explanations.

our brains are designed for best learning when less loaded.

Your mind is not only a result of nature, it is also a result of nurturing.

Halbuki en çok okudu?um bir kitab?n en çok okudu?um bir sat?r? bile bana bazan ba?ka ?eyler söyleyebilir.

And what makes humans so sure that thinking is the most important activity in the universe?...I on the contrary have never forgotten that first I existed and then, with a lot of difficulty, I learned to think." (p. 31)

neuroscientists say that if there is no past information about an object in your mind, you actually cannot see it. Suppose

emotional you" is also the "thinking you" – the way you think is the way you feel.

Every thought that arises in the mind has its roots in data you have already accumulated.

So, as you do the practice, if you are connected with your consciousness, then the mind is just free. It is so free that everything that you have smelled, tasted, touched, heard and seen is all there. You don't have to try to remember anything; it is all simply there. You can just pull it back. Memory is not about remembering, memory is just about your ability to bring back the data, isn't it?

The fundamental difference between a human being and a machine is perception.

Emotion is just the juicier part of the thought.

Both memory and imagination exist only in your mind.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.