Quotes About Cognition

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

Your life is what your thoughts make it

things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

It is, in other words, not objects and events but the interpretations we place on them that are the problem. Our duty is therefore to exercise stringent control over the faculty of perception, with the aim of protecting our mind from error.

Make for thyself a definition or description of the thing which is presented to thee, so as to see distinctly what kind of a thing it is in its substance, in its nudity, in its complete entirety, and tell thyself its proper name, and the names of the things of which it has been compounded, and into which it will be resolved.

16. The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

Look in, let not either the proper quality, or the true worth of anything pass thee, before thou hast fully apprehended it.

Such as thy thoughts and ordinary cogitations are, such will thy mind be in time. For the soul doth as it were receive its tincture from the fancies, and imaginations.

Your soul takes on the colour of your thoughts.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

nothing is but what thinking makes it.

Metaphor is a way of thought long before it is a way with words.

We understand more than we know.

As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn't imagine how it was that you hadn't known it before. Like stage magic, knowledge before you knew it took place before your very eyes, but you were looking elsewhere.

at a time, a quick move of the head, up and down, to the side and back. We have learned to see the world

What were these animals then? They didn't have names, but I knew what they were.

The brain is very protective, it decides what we choose to remember.

In France her tutor had once taught her that to truly fix an image in the mind to fasten it down completely so that it remained forever captive and vivid she should carefully name each aspect of the thing to herself as though she were describing it to a blind person. For ma petite such is the fickleness of the human mind that it soon lets go of whatever it sees if you would keep it you must tack it down with words. She had tried it and found that it worked on flowers rooms faces ceremonies.

Humans do not have enough mental capacity to do all the things that we think we can do. As attentional load increases, attentional capacity gradually diminishes.

Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

That's the case with these exponential technologies; our brains, they struggle with it. We live in a world that is global and exponential, and our brains evolved in a world that was linear and local.

The less you use your brain, the less it will be there for use when you need it.

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.