Quotes About Cognition

What infants need is the opportunity and time to take in and figure out the world around them.

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too.

Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking

(The mind's) dynamics transcend the time and space of brain physiology.

We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.

Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.

Is being an idiot like being high all the time?

Can we think more than one thought at the same time? Most of us know we can't do that. Both hemispheres are always working all of the time. But one of them is always dominant.

To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do," said Victor Hugo.

Once again she had the odd sense that she had been missing something, seeing the world flat when everything was rounded.

I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is.

Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind," said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his head. "I devour it and then I lose it

Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind," said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his head. "I devour it and then I lose it and sometimes I can't reach for any knowledge that I ought to possess. I feel desolate, but then knowledge returns or I seek it out in a new source.

What if marrying Shelley meant that she would end up just like him, unable to realize a thing's happening or a moment's passing? What if it were like a contagious disease, so that soon she would be wandering around in a daze and incapable of putting her finger on any given thing and saying, that is that?

But having a brain hurt so much sometimes.

We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.

No one knows more about the way you think than you do.

omniscience

The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.

Children are the best recorders of information - they miss nothing; but they are the poorest interpreters.

One listened and one remembered. I listened as best I could, but there were no hooks in my head to hang much of it on.

Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

That is the beauty of memory, isn't it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi)