Quotes About Cognition

You not only live it; but you watch yourself living

Thinking is a spontaneous flow of recognition.

The brain wasn't engineered to deal with that rarefied level of dumbness.

Hey, Serge, I just realized that 'slow up' and 'slow down' mean the same thing. That's fucked.

Reading is weightlifting for the brain

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

My memory seems to be holding on quite well. There is no reason why it shouldn't if you keep training it.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

There's nothing wrong with furthering education and working your brain in a different way than you normally work it.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.

Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about.

Neuroscientists are novices at deception.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

As cognitive beings, we rationalise everything. So, I think that's why nemeses are, in general, fascinating to observe, because they decide to act on feelings that we, most of the time, rationalise.

Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop.

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

Occasionally people will look at me and do a double take and they'll look at me like they're trying to think where they know me from.

Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain.

Since the most creative element in our person, the superior factor in our entire entity, is the mind

Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.

The associations of signs, whether it be strong or weak, is what distinguishes us humans from the other animals. Rather, it is what makes us complex, problematical, and unpredictable beings.