Quotes About Cognition

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

His wits were coming back to him, however slowly. That was good. His wits were all he had.

A man sees. A man hears. A man knows.

Men see what they expect to see,

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

Memory itself is an internal rumour.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

A picture you hold long enough in your head becomes your reality..

If the cognitive function operated in isolation, without any interference from the manipulative function, it could produce knowledge. Knowledge is represented by true statements. A statement is true if it corresponds to the facts. But if the manipulative function is at work, the facts no longer serve as an independent criterion of truth.

?nsan gözü yeterince kesin bir 'ölçme aleti' de?ildir: Say?lar? do?rudan alg?lama gücü dört say?s?n? a?maz. Akdeniz K?y?lar?nda Hesap, s.82.

If I try to define my state as accurately as possible, I'd say that I possessed a warped lucidity. Reality existed around me, and I was in contact with it. I was aware of my actions.

What you don't know may not hurt you, but what you don't remember always does.

Is a joke truly funny when we laugh at it, or is it merely some aberration of our frontal lobe?

How was it that he could remember not remembering, and yet the fugitive facts themselves remained so elusive? How could he misplace the skills of a lifetime? Where did such knowledge go?

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses.

When a man begins to reason, he ceases to feel.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.