Quotes About Cognition

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

There has been so much underestimating of animal cognition that to perhaps overestimate it, as I probably do, is probably a healthy reaction.

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

With every character that I've ever played, I felt like I just understood the way that she thought and how she was.

It may be unfair of me but I do feel I know it.

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.

In the space age the most important space is between the ears.

To achieve, you need thought

A person is thinking creature. His/Her main power of effect is in his/her thoughts.

Thought doesn't wrap around awareness. Awareness wraps around thought.

Quite surprisingly the majority of religious and spiritual practices actually diminishes your brain's ability to act out of rage and fear.

Without thoughts the mind cannot exist only consciousness

Thinking can be done best when you're in that state of mind where nothing can slip under the radar and destroy your concentration.

Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.

Whatever experiences we may come across in our spiritual journey we are not any of those experiences but rather the one who is witnessing them, the pure awareness cognizing them without thought.