Quotes About Cognition

We may suppress an objectionable thought about a friend, but the only way to really banish a thought is to consider it.

A Natural History of the Senses, author Diane Ackerman says, "The brain is a good stagehand. It gets on with its work while we're busy acting out our scenes.

Only human beings can look directly at something, have all the information they need to make an accurate prediction, perhaps even momentarily make the accurate prediction, and then say that it isn't so.

I understood all that in my head, but I still didn"t believe it in my heart.

All intelligent men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit—wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Memories were as important as books and almost as important as proper indexing

Je mehr man in einer Sprache durch Vernunft unterscheiden lernt, desto schwerer wird einem das Sprechen derselben. Im Fertig-Sprechen ist viel Instinktmäßiges, durch Vernunft läßt es sich nicht erreichen.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think

The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.

Your eyes is camera and your brain is a file cabinet.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

Su cansado cerebro estaba hecho un

actual brains, which turn out be much more like sensory processors than logic machines.

The human mind is infinitely complex. We make a myriad of decisions without even realizing it. Something causes us to roll the pen between our fingers while we're thinking.

She knows our rates.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

all human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.

Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.

The hand is the visible part of the brain.

High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly much wind, are not for me. My place is the fruitful bathos, the bottom-land, of experience; and the word transcendental, does not signify something passing beyond all experience, but something that indeed precedes it a priori, but that is intended simply to make cognition of experience possible.

Toute intuition sans concept n'aboutit pas Tout concept sans intuition est vide

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their unison can knowledge arise.

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.