Quotes About Cognition

I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.

We're not really conscious of what we're doing most of the time.

Neurons that fire together wire together.

We take for granted how our mind puts everything together.

Eyewitnesses could be the most unreliable. Not only did people lie, but even the truth tellers did not always get it right. Human brains had a way of filling in details that fit their own personal worldviews.

By comparison he could read her like an illustrated children's story.

My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxoius thoughts.

Que extraña cosa el conocimiento! Una vez que ha penetrado en la mente, se aferra a ella como la hiedra a la roca.

But intending to understand ten things, you actually do not understand even one. If you know a hundred flowers you do not "know" a single one.

the peculiar ability to see triangles and hexagons where others see only a party.

the rich are innately cleverer than the poor, which seems generally unlikely

We use our intellects not to solve practical problems, but to outwit each other. Deceiving people, detecting deceit, understanding people's motives, manipulating people – these are what the intellect is used for.

The human brain is a wonderful thought-producing machine. It turns out millions of thoughts every day. Most of the time, this makes our lives much easier. But unfortunately, we can't fully control what our brain thinks about.

It's almost as if the harder you try to forget something, the harder your brain tries to remember it. This is why forcing yourself to forget about something that happened to you is impossible. It's also why you can't simply force yourself to get rid of emotions that you don't want.

Convincing someone to believe something that was inherently unbelievable often meant getting that person to make a quick and easy comparison to something they already knew.

For all we know it, their pain may sometimes seem more immediate, blunt, arbitrary, and inescapable than ours. Walk through an animal shelter or a slaughterhouse and you wonder if animal suffering might not at times be all the more terrifying and all-encompassing without benefit of the words and concepts that for us, after all, confer not only meaning but consolation. Whatever is going on inside their heads, it doesn't seem mere to them.

Sherlock said, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

If Gertie van Coevorden had two brain cells, each would be amazed to know of the other's existence.

She stopped for the duration of a glance around her, as if to recapture the place, but there was no recognition of persons in her eyes, the glance merely swept through the room, as if making a swift inventory of physical objects.

Reason functions by integrating perceptual data into concepts.

We must know that we may know.

The source of work? Man's mind...man's reasoning mind.