Quotes About Cognition

Thinking is not yet fully understood.

He might be asleep, but even asleep he looked like he knew more than most guys awake

The chief problem with television is that, for those who watch it consistently, it undermines and eventually destroys the ability to think. This is because it communicates primarily images, not by words, and words are necessary if we are to perceive logical connections and make judgments as to what is right and wrong.

It's wherever you are. If it's tapped into any of your senses, it knows where you are and what you're doing." Oh no, I thought, my spirits sinking. I hadn't considered that. Did that mean nothing I did was ever anymore? "Even in the bathroom?" the Gasman's eyes widened with surprise.

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

Se Souvenir de Moi. Remember Me.

Better readers are better thinkers.

Very badly. Julie finally understood how

waves of it going through my head. It was

and the gradual realization that he was

The power of our conscious mind is unimaginable.

I'm not too unintelligent.

I'm not an unintelligent individual.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as they ought to be, that everyone's actions conform to laws that are both physical and moral - in a word, that there is a Universal Order.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

Women have a greater verbal capacity.

How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth?

The problem is not that Women think, the problem is that they think that they THINK!

I've been recognized a couple times. I get people staring at me, and I think in their heads they're thinking, 'How do I know her? Did I go to high school with her?' I think it's not registering yet.

When I first retired, I had short-term memory loss, and I started reading about neuroplasticity in the brain, about how the brain can regenerate itself, and I don't know if it can or not.

Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.