Quotes About Cognition

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

Think until it hurts.

I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless you identify the learning mechanisms. And these have some genetic basis.

What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.

I can tell you what images are in your head. I can tell what music you're thinking of. I can tell if you're listening to me or not. That's possible with an MRI now.

After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out.

I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.

The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible.

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

The En Soph, not being an object of cognition, made his existence known in the creation of the world by means of attributes or mediums, the ten Sephiroth, or intelligences, radiations, emanations, emanating from the En Soph, and which in their totality represent and are called the Adam Kadmon, the "Primordial or Archetypal Man.

Om iets te zien moet je eerst iets kunnen herkennen. Zonder herkenning kun je alleen maar kijken. Dan glijdt de wereld spoorloos door je heen.

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

Thinking is one of the greatest pleasures of the human race.

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

That is one reason for thinking hard—in order to think better. And the harder you think, the more will your thinking instrument improve.

A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.

In order to gain access to the right hemisphere, it is necessary to present the left hemisphere with a task that it will turn down.