Quotes About Cognition

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

A man must get a thing before he can forget it.

It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.

If a man can remember what he worried about last week, he has a very good memory.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

To want to forget something is to think of it.

The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.

Reading maketh a full man.

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.

The mind's cross-indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Since everything is in our heads, we better not lose them.

Until they are of the age to use the brain.

When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.

A library is thought in cold storage.

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labour of thought.

Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.