Quotes About Cognition

To understand is to perceive patterns.

An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple.

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

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

To understand possible means to understand impossible.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

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

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop.

The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.

Perhaps the more that a person is an intellectual the more they are prone to misconceptions.

The idea bent my brain.

It looked vaguely, frustratingly familiar, but I couldn't tell whether this was because I actually remembered it or because I knew I should.

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One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life. He would have been a lot better off thick as a plank.

Once a man began thinking with his body, intelligent decisions came few and far between.

I felt confused, to some degree, by everything—but in a delayed manner, in that I seemed to be repeatedly realizing that I felt confused, instead of feeling directly confused

We let the schema define our experience.