Quotes About Cognition

Interviewers actively fool themselves, finding ways to learn from interviews even if there's actually nothing there to learn from.

The brain is so intricate. It can do so many things, and people sleep on it. It's not just a piece of meat in there - it can do so much.

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

So often, religion is identified in terms coined by Christianity as sets of belief. But I had the sense that it not only involves practice, but also emotion and levels of our experience that are almost precognitive.

Italians think with their heads.

The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

The eye of the human understanding is not a naked organ of perception (lumen siccum), but an eye imbued with moisture by Will and Passion. Man always believes what he determines to believe.

There are four classes of Idols which beset men's minds. To these for distinction's sake I have assigned names, calling the first class Idols of the Tribe; the second, Idols of the Cave; the third, Idols of the Market Place; the fourth, Idols of the Theater.

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

Seeing is a vigorous, pattern-seeking process.

It is the awareness of right and wrong, along with the development of language, awareness of self, and the ability to imagine the future, to which scientists generally refer when trying to enumerate the special qualities of Homo sapiens

To be a child is to see things and not know them; then you know them.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

The heart is the first feature of working minds.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

For us to perceive intelligence, it has to fit within our behavioural framework.

I knew that tune, but I couldn't remember it. It hovered on the edge of my mind. I tried to grab it, but you can't just grab your memories. You have to pretend not to pay attention to them, which makes them mad. You have to trick them into sneaking up on you from behind.

you can't get at a memory as you might get at a splinter. You can't poke about in your mind with a sterilized needle

Are we open-minded enough to assume that other species have a mental life? Are we creative enough to investigate it? Can we tease apart the roles of attention, motivation, and cognition? Those three are involved in everything animals do; hence poor performance can be explained by any one of them.

In other words, both macaques and rats volunteer for tests only when they feel confident, suggesting that they know their own knowledge.

Cognition is the mental transformation of sensory input into knowledge about the environment and the flexible application of this knowledge.

There are lots of wonderful cognitive adaptations out there that we don't have or need. This is why ranking cognition on a single dimension is a pointless exercise. Cognitive evolution is marked by many peaks of specialization. The ecology of each species is key. The

Emotions infuse everything with meaning and are the main inspiration of cognition, also in our lives.