Quotes About Cognition

I don't like to eat octopus. They're so smart.

No one knows that I'm smart.

Boys, for the most part, are not very observant - or all that together smart, for that matter.

I'm actually pretty smart when you get to know me.

Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

People are smarter than you might think.

I'm no scientist, but I'll dare extrapolate and say that it's pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the smarter you are!

I want to literally make people smarter by jamming things in their brains.

I would say I have become a lot smarter in the way I understand things.

Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize.

I think Americans are a lot smarter than many give them credit for.

I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.

I get smarter when I read seeing big words.

The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

Smell is the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I'm amazed that people don't sniff everything.

change our understanding of the links between our brains and our minds.

Hare and Tomasello think that the social behavior of chimps is constrained by their temperament, and the human temperament is necessary for more complex forms of social cognition. In order to develop the level of cooperation that is necessary for humans to live in large social groups, humans had to become less aggressive and less competitive.

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

there is nothing we can do longer than think, no activity to which we can devote ourselves more regularly nor more easily:

an outstanding memory is often associated with weak judgement.

Ezber bilmek, bilmek de?ildir; haf?zam?za emanet edilen her ?eyi saklamakt?r.

Et si je suis un homme ayant quelque lecture, je suis un homme qui n'en retient rien.