Quotes About Cognition

What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.

You might want to put this in the back of your craw and think about it.

Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.

Sure. He came expecting to find two brains and found barely one.

But my best hunch (and, full disclosure, I personally love geometry) is that people enjoy it because it marries logic and intuition. It feels good to use both halves of the brain.

The word is the atom of the mind

Information provides the tools with which we think and understand reality. Without accurate, up-to-date information, we can easily be manipulated and controlled.

our minds can do strange things, can convince us of things that aren't real. Sometimes we see things that aren't really there, sometimes we don't see things that are. We're all experts at fictionalizing the truth.

To gain an understanding of the mind leads on to an appreciation of what it means to be human.

the mind is a neural computer

Our intelligence resides not in individual brains but in the collective mind. To function, individuals rely not only on knowledge stored within our skulls but also on knowledge stored elsewhere: in our bodies, in the environment, and especially in other people.

As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding

We live under the knowledge illusion because we fail to draw an accurate line between what is inside and outside our heads. And we fail because there is no sharp line. So we frequently don't know what we don't know.

The human mind is both genius and pathetic, brilliant and idiotic.

No one individual had one one-thousandth of the knowledge necessary to fully understand it all.

the mind evolved to support our ability to act effectively.

To achieve complete understanding necessitates understanding increasingly more and more, and the combination of everything you need to understand to achieve complete understanding quickly becomes more than you can bear without, well, exploding.

Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.

My deductions have not impressed you at all, which leads me to think that you knew everything already.

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.