Quotes About Cognition

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

Our ability to sense reality is limited

Unless the mind can fix the reality of an event in the actual instant of its happening, judgment soon dwindles into a confusion between memory and argument.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Don't let your mind wander, it's to small to be out by itself.

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Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with

o ponto de vista vale oitenta pontos de QI" —

point of view is worth 80 IQ points"—a

Of all liars, the smoothest and most convincing is memory

Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

I wonder if your eyes and ears ever make anything save spasmodic contact with your brain.

you. I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth.

The book to read is not the one that things for you but the one which makes you think.

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think .

I could say. "Well I damn well knew what

Most of us recognize faces (did you ever hear anyone say, "Oh, I know your name, but I don't recognize your face"?). It's the names we have trouble with. Since we do usually recognize faces, the thing to do is apply a system wherein the face tells us the name.

The Substitute Word concept can be applied to any seemingly abstract material. Basically, it's this: When you hear or see a word or phrase that seems abstract or intangible to you, think of something—anything—that sounds like, or reminds you of, the abstract material and can be pictured in your mind.

If you never noticed, it never happened.

Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew the world was still in motion, I knew I existed. Not a very consequential existence, but an existence nonetheless. It struck me as wanting that someone should confirm his own existence only by the hands of an electric wall clock. There had to be a more cognitive means of confirmation. But try as I might, nothing less facile came to mind.

A theory is a battlefield in your head.

No two human beings are alike; it's a question of identity. And what is identity? The cognitive system arisin' from the aggregate memories of that individual's past experiences. The layman's word for this is the mind. Not two human beings have the same mind. At the same time, human beings have almost no grasp of their own cognitive systems. I don't, you don't, nobody does. All we know—or think we know—is but a fraction of the whole cake. A mere tip of the icing.

Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.