Quotes About Cognition

It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning mind.

The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.

The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

My mind can always separate the two. Even when I am very upset, I keep reviewing the facts over and over until I can come to a logical conclusion.

memories, feelings, sense perceptions, or thoughts

Cognitive science teaches us that what we think of as ourselves derives not from a direct experience but from a collage of sensations and images—self-representations, pictures we have of ourselves.

Children's minds need not innately embody language structures, if languages embody the predispositions of children's minds!

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

Haven't slept in so long my memory foam is starting to forget.

Ob ein Mensch Erfahrungen machen kann oder nicht, ist in letzter Instanz davon abhängig, wie er vergisst.

Whoever allows the cognition of the increase of horror to escape them, does not merely fall prey to cold-hearted contemplation, but fails to recognize, along with the specific difference of what is newest from what has gone before, simultaneously the true identity of the whole, of horror without end.

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

You'll hear me say this again: save your brain for higher-level thinking. Use your organizer for storing information. Don't trust your brain.

knowledge depends on the mode of the knower; for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his mode

nothing can be known, save what is true;