Quotes About Cognition

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

The mind is just another muscle.

We all go to the gym, and we're thinking about how we look and what we're eating, but our brain is a muscle, and you have to train it!

The brain is muscle. If you don't exercise it, it will get slow.

The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.

I can't remember names and things.

I am terrible with people's names.

I wish I could remember people's names. I'm supposed to remember so many.

I have a terrible memory. I never remember names or faces. It's incredibly embarrassing.

Scientists are in the strange position of being confronted daily by the indisputable fact of their own consciousness, yet with no way of explaining it.

How we remember and what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

In summary, every conscious experience has five distinct and undeniable properties: each one exists for itself, is structured, informative, integrated and definite. These are the five essential hallmarks of any and all conscious experiences, from the commonplace to the exalted, from the painful to the orgiastic.

The literal mind can never understand the ironic mind.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language.

How much reality did the contents of one's mind actually possess?

You must learn to see what you are looking at. And also: The way of the warrior is the way of knowing.

intelligence is a combination of mental ability and the accumulated knowledge that arises from that ability.

Since our brains are wired to make us emotional creatures, your first reaction to an event is always going to be an emotional one. You have no control over this part of the process. You do control the thoughts that follow an emotion, and you have a great deal of say in how you react to an emotion—as long as you are aware of it.

Only 36 percent of the people we tested are able to accurately identify their emotions as they happen. ADAPTED FROM AND REPRODUCED BY PERMISSION FROM JULIA WEST Triggers

T?t c? m?i th?, k? c? có v? t?m phào, má»™t ngày nào Ä'ó cÅ©ng có th? tr? nên h?u ích. ?i?u quan tr?ng là bi?t ???c Ä'i?u mà ng??i khác không bi?t là b?n bi?t.

metaphor is not only a means of delight but also, and above all, a tool of cognition...