Quotes About Cognition

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

Since the concepts people live by are derived only from perceptions and from language and since the perceptions are received and interpreted only in light of earlier concepts, man comes pretty close to living in a house that language built.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Language is an inventory of human experience.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

To speak French does not mean wits.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

I'm not stupid." No, Eve thought, you redefine the word.

la razón no es más que una enorme tautología.

He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in their significances.

Buck's senses got here again to him

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

I don't have a type. I am more of a sapiosexual person. The girl has to be intelligent.

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.

The ultimate competitive advantage is being cognitive.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

One of the most interesting things about the cognitive theory is the idea that anger and interpersonal conflict ultimately result from a mental con. In other words, you're telling yourself things that aren't entirely true when you're fighting with someone.

The problem with humans is that they are unable to handle their own intelligence.

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.

Just as our brains fill in the details of an image our eyes record only roughly, so, too, do our brains employ tricks we are unaware of to fill in details about people we don't know intimately.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.