Quotes About Cognition

Well, most textbooks say language is a mechanism for expressing thought. But language is thought. Thought is information given form. The form is language.

Well, thinking about what's not supposed to require thinking, that is philosophy, no?

Thinking in Babel-17 was like suddenly seeing the water at the bottom of a well that a moment ago you thought had only gone down a few feet

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

windows. What he thought

the more you understand your memory, the more inspired you'll be to improve it.

Memories that are not recalled often can begin to fade away because those memories are not being reinforced. Which is why it's relatively easier to remember the details of what you did more recently than what happened many years ago.

physical inactivity has been calculated to be the most significant risk factor in cognitive decline and the development of dementia.

Scientists discovered these "forgetting" neurons in 2019, which helps us further understand the importance of sleep—and the merits of forgetting. It's a beautiful paradox: In order to remember, we have to forget to some degree.

Physical exertion, in fact, has thus far been the only thing we've scientifically documented to improve brain health and function.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

Life is but thought.

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one's god module is overactive at the time.

Ignisecond, n.: The overlapping moment of time when the hand is locking the car door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!"

A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.

Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it... every step of the way is mind over matter... We override our brains all the time.

The wheels are spinning in my head all the time.

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.