Quotes About Cognition

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

He had always had difficulty in recognising an emotion.

We almost never know what we know until after we know it.

Imogen was a bright girl naturally, but she had read so many novels that her brain was completely turned.

For many of us, our smartphones have become extensions of our brains - we outsource essential cognitive functions, like memory, to them, which means they soak up much more information than we realize.

A lot of leftists think it is soccer's fault that people don't think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a proof that people think with their feet.

If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it's amazing how good we are at it.

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

Remember that we can only in our forebrains handle 5-7 items. Our backbrains can handle massive amounts. So when you're given a problem, think about it before you go sleep, and chances are you can solve it by the next morning.

I'm a natural puzzle solver.

Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta; they go too low.

Some people have quick retention. I'm not one of those.

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

I somehow can't remember numbers, names, and faces. I forget very easily.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Think with your eyes open.

Melancholy, a major instrument of cognition, the only one capable of disturbing and shaking the imperialistic security of theology...

When we know something we stop thinking about it, don't we?

But that's what thinking is, says Ona. And thinking is one of the things we want to be free to do. The things we know to exist or to be true don't require us to dwell on them.

It's the thinking that gets you killed.

If I am a man of some reading, I am a man of no retentiveness.

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilise the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

The human mind is as naturally sensitive to arguments as the eye is to colors. (There may be some people who are argument-blind!) But the eye will not see if it is not kept open, and the mind will not follow an argument if it is not awake.