Quotes About Cognition

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

I don't know how to depict intelligence.

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

I'm an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being.

I believe I am more intelligent than the average person.

There is no inherent contradiction between being right-wing and being intelligent.

Movies aren't machines. They interact with our brains.

We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

I'm very interested in the human mind, what's going on in there.

'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp.

In A.I., the holy grail was how do you generate internal representations.

It's not that we simply get old, and memory starts to go, and sleep starts to deteriorate. But those two things actually are significantly interrelated.

You haven't the brains God gave a cow,

Chaque langue voit le monde d'une manière différente.

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

the soul never thinks without a mental picture',13 'the thinking faculty thinks of its forms in mental pictures',14 'no one could ever learn or understand anything, if he had not the faculty of perception; even when he thinks speculatively, he must have some mental picture with which to think.'15 For

Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.

These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.