Quotes About Cognition

The unfed mind devours itself.

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

People's minds are overloaded with information.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.

All of our problems start in our minds.

The only way to understand fully is to become the object of our understanding.

corollaries—where have I seen his face, don't I know that

For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, Can I believe this?, but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, Must I believe this?

People are often unaware of their own unawareness

Finally, it has been shown that the tendency for people to think of themselves as above average is reduced—even for ambiguous traits—when people are required to use specific definitions of each trait in their judgments.27

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in mind. ALPHONSE BERTILLON

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind. —ALPHONSE BERTILLON

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

?udno je to. Kad ?oveka obuzme neka misao, onda je nalazi svuda, ?ak je i miriše u vetru.

Seldom do people think things through foolishly. More often, they do not bother to think things through at all, so that even brainy individuals can reach untenable conclusions because their brainpower means little if it is not deployed and applied.

Every time you discuss the future [in English], grammatically you're forced to cleave that from the present and treat it as if it's something viscerally different.

It seems perverse to define intelligence as including rationality when no existing IQ test measures any such thing!

Substantial empirical evidence indicates that individual differences in thinking dispositions and intelligence are far from perfectly correlated. Many different studies involving thousands of subjects have indicated that measures of intelligence display only moderate to weak correlations (usually less than .30) with some thinking dispositions (for example, actively open-minded thinking, need for cognition) and near zero correlations with others (such as conscientiousness, curiosity, diligence).

More intelligent people appear to reason better only when you tell them in advance what good thinking is!

attribute substitution amounts to substituting an easier question for a harder one.