Quotes About Cognition

What we stationed in our minds, our eyes behold.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.

Emotion is always part of perception, not distinct from it.

The secret to creativity is not in the so-called higher cognitive processes but in the dreamlike reconfigurations of emotional meanings that take place unconsciously

I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren't there.

Part of being a sentient human is the ability to anticipate others' mental states - to say "Fred's going to hate this but Jane would love it."

I thank the Lord for the brain He put in my head. Occasionally, I love to just stand to one side and watch how it works.

Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.' 'I have a superior brain?' 'Uh,' Eliot said, 'I wouldn't go that far.'

She did not need now to forget what she had seen; and, not needing to forget it—thus are our brains fashioned—she was able to forget it.

I trust my nose, ears, eyes. But my brain…

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature

We glaze over the zeroes in the quantity and make decisions in reaction to emotional images.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience.

Why is it that we always remember that people forget; but we always forget that they remember? I used to remember...but I forgot!

An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.

The human brain has billions of neurons and hundreds of billions of interconnections. It can process more than two million bits of information per second and can remember everything you have ever seen or heard.

Do you have a brain?" And if the answer was yes, then she said, "Then you could have thought your way out of it.

I could imagine it in a way that felt like remembering

the brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard…

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

The goods of the mind are at least as important as the goods of the body.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.