Quotes About Cognition

The sensation that my brain cells were multiplying was exhilarating.

She was born smart. She's put her brain into neutral ever since, like everyone else in this place.

As far as the functioning of your mind is concerned, it doesn't matter what you feel. It doesn't matter to anyone else, and it matters least of all to yourself.

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

The brain] is just a landscape...We're Lewis and Clark. We have no idea what's going on in most of that terrain. It's wilderness, I'm telling you. -Dr. David Sutton

It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.

Every logical act of the intellect is an assertion that something is.

Man has no knowledge of things except by the thoughts present to his mind; that is, he can only know what is thinkable.

Reason starts from itself to return to itself.

You forget the things you want to remember and remember the things you want to forget.

Nobel Prize–winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues have shown that what we remember about the pleasurable quality of our past experiences is almost entirely determined by two things: how the experiences felt when they were at their peak (best or worst), and how they felt when they ended. This "peak-end" rule of Kahneman's is what we use to summarize the experience, and then we rely on that summary later to remind ourselves of how the experience felt.

It is always through arbitrary combinations that experience enslaves the memory.

The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.

Non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere.

All emotions stem from beliefs. You can't feel something without believing something to be true first.

It is easier to die than to remember.

Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle that is evolving under our fingertips.

One day, I was just thinking about something, and then - you know when you think, and you have that inner voice in your head? I realized it was in English.

No actor ever forgets a role, so I should have realized something was wrong.

Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the features of a real argument.

I just have pretty good recall of information.

Scientists have discovered that, as we age, our brains act like computers with fuller and fuller hard drives. So when we're trying to recall a fact or a word or a name, it takes us longer, because - to put it scientifically - our brains hold a lot of 'stuff.'

I've actually got quite a good memory. I've good recall. It's often things which other people might not notice.

I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.