Quotes About Cognition

The nature of mind is just too close to be recognized. Just as we are unable to see our own face, mind finds it difficult to look into its own nature. 2.

Sometimes I just know things.

When in doubt, use your brain. If yo have one.

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.

One reason listening can be exhausting for introverts is that we pay attention. We listen hard. Words enter our ears and then go straight to our busy, whirring brains to be processed, considered, and analyzed.

If something is in a person's head, then it is real," Poirot said.

Was there ever something not known before it was recognized?

Ask a scientist, they will tell you language doesn't exist.

I've got "Sometimers.' Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget.

For, as I know that I am, so I know this also, that I know.

Cómo ejercitar la memoria para que aprenda a olvidar?

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.

Denial may be neither a matter of telling the truth nor intentionally telling a lie. There seem to be states of mind, or even whole cultures, in which we know and don't know at the same time.

Observation is a dying art.

Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.

Immer sind die Instinkte wissender als unsere wachen Gedanken.

To know by heart is not to know, it is to keep what they have given you and store it in your memory.

Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists call a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree.

Wir sehen die Welt nicht wie ein Botaniker, der gleichzeitig Architekt, Arzt, Geologe und Kapitän ist. Das Kennen geschieht nicht so wie das Sehen, es verträgt sich nicht einmal allzugut damit, und es ist oft eine schlechtere Methode, um festzustellen, was es gibt.

Thoughts are the images, memories, beliefs, judgments, and reflections that float through your mind and often give rise to your feelings.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men.

In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.