Quotes About Cognition

Dysrationalia is the inability to think and behave rationally despite adequate intelligence.

Abstract words seem to be more difficult than concrete words.

Knowing a word can also mean that the learner knows the frequency of occurrence of that word. Though this aspect of a word may seem almost trivial, the frequency of a word is often cited as a major factor in a given word's difficulty. In fact, Haynes (1993) claims that word frequency is probably the major component in word difficulty.

Brains in the head saves blisters on the feet.

Food for thought gives some folks indigestion.

As a kid, I always assumed the know-it-alls on Jeopardy! were obviously the smartest people in America. If you were smart, that's how you showed it: by knowing all your state flowers and kings of Saxony. But what if Rob's right and that's a different, much shallower kind of intelligence? Is my mountain of flash cards all for naught?

Reading a book, and taking the time to ruminate and make inferences and engage the imaginational processing, is more cognitively enriching, without a doubt, than the short little bits that you might get if you're into the 30-second digital mode.

Perhaps best known is the case of Koko, the gorilla to whom the Gorilla Foundation taught American Sign Language. Koko learned more than a thousand signs, created compound signs to convey new information, and showed a significant understanding of spoken English.9

There is more to the human mind than its evolutionary heritage.

What we believe is a result of our thinking. If we think wrong, we will believe wrong.

Stupid people can learn a language quiet and easy because there is nothing going on in there to keep it out.

Even today Western man finds it hard to see the psychological necessity for a transcendental subject of cognition as the counter-pole of the empirical universe, although the postulate of a world-confronting self, at least as a point of reflection, is a logical necessity.

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Better a brain than a fist. A brain can hold anything, from giant things, like distant stars and planets, to tiny things we can't see, like germs. A brain can even hold things that aren't and never were, like hobbits. A brain can hold the whole universe, a fist just holds what little it can grab. Or hits what it can't.

Man, as we realize if we reflect for a moment, never perceives anything fully or comprehends anything completely.

If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be no empirical knowledge that is not already caught and limited by the a priori structure of cognition.

Myth is the natural and indispensable intermediate stage between unconscious and conscious cognition.

Intuition does not say what things 'mean' but sniffs out their possibilities. 'Meaning' is given by thinking.

There is no consciousness without the discrimination of opposites.

Os sentidos do homem limitam a percepção que este tem do mundo à sua volta.

Emotional relationships are relationships of desire, tainted by coercion and constraint; something is expected from the other person, and that makes him and ourselves unfree. Objective cognition lies hidden behind the attraction of the emotional relationship; it seems to be the central secret.

Whoever confuses these last two functions with feeling in this narrower sense, can obviously not acknowledge the rationality of feeling. But if they are separated from feeling, it becomes quite clear that feeling values and feeling judgements—that is to say, our feelings—are not only reasonable, but are also as discriminating, logical and consistent as thinking.

Thoughts are natural events that you do not possess, and whose meaning you only imperfectly recognize.

We might perhaps say that the thinking of the introvert is rational, while that of the extravert is programmatic.