Quotes About Cognition

To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes.

We are moving beyond the non-fiction novel to different kinds of narrative art, different forms of cognition. Loaded with moral and political point, narrative has been recalibrated to record, honour, and protest the latest historically specific instance of futility and mess.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

I feel like I'm losing my ability to understand reality; like when someone loses their hearing, they can still speak English, but their speech eventually becomes distorted because they can't hear themselves.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

In my mind, the speed of the game is mental.

I have a very bad memory. So I would like a chat bot to just remind me of everything I forget. I spend my entire life on Google trying to remember stuff.

Even to this day, I read things in real time, you know, I don't - like, as if it's being spoken. I can't skim stuff in ways that I know certain people can. I have to sort of hear it in my head to be able to read it.

Researchers in Canada say they have discovered the part of the brain that is used to make decisions, and this is weird: If you're married, it's actually located in your wife's brain.

The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition — thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.

Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality

Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.

Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much!

The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

Man knows much more than he understands.

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

Man does not see reality as it is, but only as he perceives it, and his perception may be mistaken or biased.

Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.

The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.