Quotes About Cognition

It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.

The human brain has an amazing ability for pattern recognition, sometimes even better than a computer.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.

There's a lot of real estate in our brain dedicated to facial recognition and to physics. That takes a lot of processing power out of our brain.

Honest people remember stories in the order of emotional prominence, but liars will recount a story in chronological order. Memory rarely works that way.

Nobody reads a reference book to be amused, much less charmed.

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

Bad criticism recites rote arguments. The shame of rote arguments isn't just that they're cliches, though they are, but that they tend to hide from us why a critic is actually thinking what they're thinking.

When your back is against the wall, your brain has to function at a high level.

Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

Reality is inside the skull.

The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.

The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already." ? George Orwell, 1984.

This invasion of one's mind by ready-made phrases (lay the foundations, achieve a radical transformation) can only be prevented if one is constantly on guard against then, and every such phrase anesthetizes a portion of one's brain.

Los mejores libros son los que nos dicen lo que ya sabemos

Nothing exists except through human consciousness.