Quotes About Cognition

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred

Saber muito não lhe torna inteligente. A inteligência se traduz na forma que você recolhe, julga, maneja e, sobretudo, onde e como aplica esta informação.

It is my job to know things, the cat said. Cats know lots of things about the world and its creatures, especially people. Cats watch and listen. It is what they do best.

Consider that women are better than men at remembering the location of objects. Thousands of men and women all over the world have taken a test of object memory, and women perform better, on average.

Literary works quite often 'know' things that the reader does not know, or does not know yet, or perhaps will never know.

It doesn't require an education, Sergeant Beata, to see what's right before your eyes. Use your head." Beata

That's one form of magic, of course. What, just knowing things? Knowing things that other people don't know.

The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

She knew a cutting, incisive, withering and above all a self-evident answer existed. It was just that, to her extreme annoyance, she couldn't quite bring it to mind.

There's some things we can't think because we don't know the words.

Sometimes people fools themselves into believing things that aren't true. Sometimes that can be quite dangerous for the person. They see the world in a wrong way. They won't let themselves see that what they believe is wrong. But often there is a part of the mind that does know, and the right words can let it out.

That was the thing about thoughts. They thought themselves, and then dropped into your head in the hope that you would think so too.

You couldn't think about how you thought. It was like opening a box with the crowbar that was inside.

The human mind was expert at filling in missing details and confidently turning them into facts, even if those facts were merely imagined.

Law of Reversed Effect. The harder you try to remember something, the less likely it is you'll be able to recall it.

His brain was his office.

EVERY OBJECT of the mind is itself mind.

We tend to focus on the object and call it reality. We don't notice how our mind intervenes in our perception.

I think I have good judgment.

I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others.

A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.