Quotes About Cognition

I already know that," you might say. Well, you do. And you also don't.

The criterion for a book of worth is: does it make you think more, W. says.

People don't tend to work that way. We have our opinion and we filter information into a paradigm that supports it.

a menudo encontraba párrafos enteros que no tenían ningún sentido para ella.

RULE 3: PEOPLE SO OFTEN DON'T SEE WHAT IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES.

and my brain put them together in that way brains sometimes do: pairing the ideas that shouldn't be paired, yet nonetheless were.

Unfortunately, the two hemispheres of our brain have become separated and no longer function as a holistic gestalt.

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows. What one has no access to through experience one has no ear for.

In the case of the earliest Connection Survival Style, for example, focusing on changing distorted cognitions is particularly difficult because with early trauma, the cortex is not yet fully developed, and it is mostly the underlying bottom-up nervous system and affective imbalances that drive the cognitive distortions.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

How strange knowledge was. Once something was known, it could not be unknown, no matter how one might wish.

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

She knows wot's wot, she does.

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

The destructive potential of language is contained within the very nature of representation. Words, particularly nouns, force an infinite of unique objects and processes into a finite number of categories.

Perhaps it is the increasing abstraction of ourselves from the world, to which language contributes, that explains why "fifteen years ago people could distinguish 300,000 sounds; today many children can't go beyond 100,000 and the average is 180,000. Twenty years ago the average subject could detect 350 shades of a particular color. Today the number is 130."13 By naming the world, abstracting it and reducing it, we impoverish our perception of it. Language

[T]here are few mental exercises better than learning great poetry or prose by heart.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

I was not exactly sleepy, somewhere between alertness and a kind of delirium.

I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.

If the teacher presents too much information too quickly, the new will displace the old before it has a chance to consolidate in long-term memory.

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.