Quotes About Cognition

Based on the science, you can make somewhat clear statements: The number of people who can survive on six hours of sleep without impairment is zero.

Books think for me.

When you buy, use your eyes and your mind, not your ears.

No one is the worse for knowing two languages.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

I knew I was drunk. I felt sophisticated and couldn't pronounce it.

Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

What you theoretically know, vividly realize.

To improve your memory, lend people money.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

Man is a reasoning, rather than a reasonable animal.

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

What it turns out is that we think we're multitasking, but we're not. The brain is sequential tasking: we flit from one thought to the next very, very rapidly, giving us the illusion that what we're doing is doing all these things at once.

It turns out that in order to think well, knowledge helps.

The human mind, as it turns out, is messy.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.

As you try to tweak your sleep one way or the other, you might be, you might be doing great - you might do better at remembering details of an event, but you might end up being poorer at abstracting the gist or the rules associated with it.