Quotes About Cognition

Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.

Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could solve a Rubik's Cube literally with his eyes closed because it's just an algorithm.

It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.

You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.

Time is but a mode of thought

We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.

It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.

Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the world comes into someone's head.

It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

I reck'n I knows what I knows.

all democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it

It surprises me sometimes to think how much we do know and how intelligent we are.

I DO know lots of things that I don't remember, and remember lots of things that I don't know. It's so with every educated person.

DüÅŸünce, d??ar?dan al?nan izlenimlerin mekanik ve otomatik olarak bir araya getirilmesi ve bunlardan bir ç?kar?m yap?lmas?d?r.

I'm seeing now, not remembering but something else . . .

When you give people too much information, they instantly resort to pattern recognition.

Emotions are virtually always responses to thoughts. That's great news, because while it's impossible to control an emotion once a thought has triggered it, we can change our thoughts deliberately. We do this not by contradicting them, but by questioning them. EXPLANATION:

your neocortex is the part of your brain that tracks time.

we don't just react to the world as it is. We react to the world as we think it is—the

We also believe thoughts like "I'm hungry" or "I need pie" even when they aren't true. We react to these inaccurate statements as though they were scientific fact. As