Quotes About Cognition

Confidence is something you feel before you truly understand the situation

Knowing is never the same with understanding.

There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

Thinking, it seems, is a difficult undertaking RjS

Our mind is like a MIRROR it reflects to the outside World what we think.

Age had nothing to do with how well my brain worked.

I have learned that many of us simply "See", .........we hardly "Observe

I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.

You play this sport in the mind, not only on the field.

From a cognitive standpoint, I'm very aware that you have no room for error in a picture book. Every word counts.

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

Man is an imagining being.

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

The key to every man is his thought.

The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom.

All men have an equal disposition for understanding.

Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .