Quotes About Cognition

I really believe that languages are the best mirror of the human mind, and that a precise analysis of the significations of words would tell us more than anything else about the operations of the understanding. – Leibniz

Ei accept? numai ceea ce tocmai le iese în cale, ceea ce îi m?guleÅŸte ÅŸi le este cunoscut. Sunt asemenea câinilor: "C?ci câinii latr? ÅŸi ei la toÅ£i cei pe care nu-i cunosc".

Nothing pains some people more than having to think

In general, we're least aware of what our minds do best.

Each of our major Ways to Think results from turning certain resources on while turning certain others off—and thus changing some ways that our brains behave.

My mind is like a crowded box-room with packets of all sorts stowed away therein—so many that I may well have but a vague perception of what was there.

Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?

No veo nada- respondí [...] -Muy al contrario, Watson, lo ve usted todo. Sin embargo, no razona a partit de lo que ve

Intuitions are not to be ignored, they represent data processed to fast for the conscious mind to comprehend

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "Frequently.

If Nature abhors the void, the mind abhors what is meaningless. Show a person an ink-blot, and he will start at once to organise it into a hierarchy of shapes, tentacles, wheels, masks, a dance of figures.

the world is my idea

You can know only what you have thought about.

As Epictetus says, Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things.

Tutti prendono i limiti della loro visione per i limiti del mondo.

Abstract reasoning serves rather to fix the immediate cognition of the understanding for reason by setting it down in abstract concepts, that is, by making it clear,e i.e. putting it into a state to be interpreted for others, to make it meaningful.f –

one is intelligent the more unfortunate as one is

We sometimes forget even what we have done, so how much more what we have thought.

Reason is of a feminine nature: it can give only after it has received. On its own, it possesses nothing but the empty forms of its own operation. Completely pure rational cognition gives us in fact only four things, the very metalogical truths.

The younger we are, the more each individual object represents for us the whole class to which it belongs.

Lesen heißt mit einem fremden Kopfe, statt des eigenen, denken.

There are, in the capacities of mankind, three varieties: one man will understand a thing by himself; another so far as it is explained to him; a third, neither of himself nor when it is put clearly before him.

She wondered how to un-know certain things, certain specific things that she knew but did not wish to know.

human beings commonly imagine patterns (whether good or bad) where really there are none.