Quotes About Cognition

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety

Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.

The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

That is the beauty of memory, isn't it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi)

Which isn't the truth, you understand. At least you understand that in your head...but not always in your heart.

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them.

Truth is what you think, not what you find.

Our head is designed to broaden our capability of analyzing facts, events and draw the right conclusions

?Everything that makes you, you, is a biologically existential expression of your entire brain.

It's a left-brain right-brain thing. People are more agreeable toward people on their left.

Getting the quote right isn't what matters. It's remembering what it means.

DSS—didn't see shit.

Classically, the ability to invent and execute plans was believed to be limited to only three species: chimpanzees, gorillas, and human beings. Now

Classically, the ability to invent and execute plans was believed to be limited to only three species: chimpanzees, gorillas, and human beings.

Among human beings, vocabulary was considered the best measure of intelligence.)

And when Arthur was twice asked to sort photographs of people and photographs of chimps, he sorted them correctly except that both times he put his own picture in the stack with the people. He obviously did not consider himself a chimpanzee

The machine does much of what we used to do. The machine thinks for us. The machine has become, instead of a tool, the replacement of our minds. Use it (our minds) or lose it has become a reality today. And, since we are less inclined to use it, we are most definitely losing it. Our power to think is being rapidly deteriorated.

Confirmation bias," he'd heard this called. The human mind was just bad at seeing things it did not expect to see, and a bit too eager to see what it expected to see. "Confirmation bias is the most insidious because you don't even realize it is happening," he said. A scout would settle on an opinion about a player and then arrange the evidence to support that opinion. "The