Quotes About Cognition

The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used.

The man who knew an encyclopedia by heart would be in grave danger of incurring the title idiot savant—"learned fool.

Analytical reading is preeminently for the sake of understanding

Contanto somente como o poder de sua mente, você tem de operar os símbolos que estão diante de você a fim de elevar-se do estado de entendimento inferior ao estado de entendimento superior. Essa elevação consiste em uma leitura criteriosa - o tipo de leitura que todo o livro desafiador merece.

Dado que toda a leitura consiste em uma atividade, então toda a leitura tem de ser ativa. A leitura totalmente passiva é algo impossível - afinal, não conseguimos ler com os olhos paralisados e com a mente adormecida.

não importa se o que aprendeu é um fato sobre o livro ou um fato sobre o mundo: você aprendeu apenas informações, caso tenha exercitado apenas sua memória.

The reason is that there are two possible relationships between the brain and the book, not just one, and these two relationships are illustrated by the two different experiences that can be had when reading the book.

Não precisamos saber tudo sobre determinada coisa para que possamos entendê-la.

the process by which a person's mind, with nothing to function with but the symbols of the reading matter, and without any outside help[1], rises through the power of its own functioning.

the world you live in is determined largely by what goes on in your mind.

From today onward, my memory is improving in every way. I will always remember whatever I need to know at every moment of time and point of space. The impressions I receive will be clear and definite. I will retain them automatically and easily. Whatever I want to recall will immediately present itself in the correct form in my mind. I am improving rapidly every day. Very soon my memory will be better than it has ever been before.

fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts.

What embodiment secures is not the distinction between male and female or between humans who can think and machines which cannot. Rather, embodiment makes clear that thought is a much broader cognitive function depending for its specificities on the embodied form enacting it.

We perceive existence by means of words and names. To this or that vague, potential thing I will give a name, and it will exist thereafter, and its existence will be clearly perceived. The name enables me to see it. I can call it by its name, and I can see it for what it is.

As Upton Sinclair famously observed: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"36

todo lo neurológico es real, y además también puede estar en nuestra cabeza.

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.

Nature has endowed man with absolute control over but one thing, and that is thought.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to one's self, whether the statement be true or false.

There are no handles upon a language Whereby men take hold of it And mark it with signs for its remembrance.

Most of her contemporaries simply don't understand why she has all these paper books, or indeed all this paper. It's a hands-on craving. I can't remember anything unless I write it down or draw it. Many of our words for cognition are tactile words. We speak of handling a problem, turning it over in our minds, grasping an idea. A keyboard just doesn't do it for all of us.

perceiving the world" entails a process of apprehending whatever presents itself to us. This particular "perceiving" is done with our senses and with our will.

No hay lenguas muertas, sino cerebros aletargados.

We only remember what never really happend