Quotes About Cognition

Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read.

Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.

So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius

mano galvoje pakaitomis dirba dvejopos smegenys: gerai išsivys?iusios kvailio smegenys ir menkai išsivy?iusios genijaus smegenys.

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

I think, therefore I'll think.

When the eye sees, it simply registers color and shape. All the rest takes place in the mind.

The cognitive aspect of ideology is rooted in the fact that knowledge and frameworks of interpretation are collective and cumulative human constructs.

The head is the seat of intelligence. The heart is the seat of emotion.

Action is movement with intelligence.

Use your head for something more than to give your hat a ride, can't you?

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively.

Very bad things follow when we kid ourselves that we're naturally rational, rather than the more humbling truth: naturally emotional.

I've just always sort of been mesmerized by our minds and how people think and how people react differently.

Sleep deprivation impairs everything from your motor skills to your reaction time.

Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps.

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

We are not only what we read. We are how we read.

I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and analyze it just like that.

Not every child learns the same way. I could not learn through my eyes. Reading was impossible. Math, to compute it in my mind, was impossible. I learned everything through listening.

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

I've been reading a lot about what the Internet does to our brains.

If you sit at your desk and reach and grab a cup of coffee, you don't look directly at the cup, focus on it, and get your fingers lined up before grabbing the coffee. In real life, you reach for a cup that you see out of the corner of your eye, and when you feel it, you know you can grab it.