Quotes About Cognition

The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.

I don't have that kind of brain where I can spell-check.

I didn't know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.

You only know what you know.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

When a man first awakens, it sometimes takes several moments before he starts thinking clearly." "And here I thought it took several years, perhaps a lifetime for the average man's intellect to kick in.

if you're making sense, you've just unmade confusion.

Sometimes you are able to keep moving because you are not really yourself anymore. Your entire brain can shrink to one pinhead of cognition, one star in a night.

A lot of the pain you are dealing with right now is really just your thoughts.

It's not only the event itself, but the way we explain it to ourselves that causes depression.

every time we remembered something, we weren't remembering the event itself but the last time we'd remembered it. It

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

A good memory, I'm sure," Zen returned. "But a memory nonetheless.

You must use your mind and not let it use you.

availability bias—making decisions on the basis of more recent and more accessible information loss aversion—the strong preference to avoid a loss rather than to make an equivalent gain selective cognition—taking on board facts and arguments that fit with our existing frames risk bias—underestimating the likelihood of extreme events, while overestimating our ability to cope with them.

As George Lakoff and Mark Johnson vividly illustrate in their 1980 classic, Metaphors We Live By, orientational metaphors such as 'good is up' and 'good is forward' are deeply embedded in Western culture, shaping the way we think and speak.

Words are processed by our short-term memory where we can only retain about seven bits of information . . . Images, on the other hand, go directly into long-term memory where they are indelibly etched.

As a result, we are born pattern-spotters, seeing faces in the clouds, ghosts in the shadows, and mythical beasts in the stars.

Il est bon à savoir. It is good to know.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.

Memory, you realized long ago, is a game that a healthy-brained person can play all the time, and the game of memory is won or lost on one criterion: Do you leave the formation of memories to happenstance, or do you decide to remember?

Unfortunately, the human brain is every bit as closed a system as a Mac.