Quotes About Cognition

Our brain is organized to act and feel before we think. This is also how our brain develops—sequentially, from the bottom up. The developing infant acts and feels, and these actions and feelings help organize how they will begin to think.

Those who can truly see, know.

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Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.

It's intelligence that makes you unhappy.

Like climbing a cliff, thinking is a perilous activity for those unused to it.

Oh," said Wheaton. "Oh, I see. Yes, that does bring mathematics into it.

I know you don't know. I know what you know, and I know what you don't know. I even know what you don't know that you don't know.

Yes, the bear was smart—for a bear—able to figure out about stone-throwing—he had never seen that behavior on the Discovery Channel.

A human child loses almost all the memories of the first years of its life, and its long-term memories only take root in its second or third year of life; everything before that is lost, so that the child cannot remember the beginning of life.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

The great events of the world take place in the brain...

It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

Moriarty: . . .everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.

Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Learning without thinking is wasted effort; thinking without learning is dangerous

Mentally competent people believe all kinds of goofy things

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said.

You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?' 'Yeah. But you remember some things, don't you?' 'Yeah. You remember the things you want to forget and forget the things you want to remember.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.

What you put in your head is there forever.

The arrival of language was like the invasion of a parasitic system. Co-opting those areas of the brain that were the least dedicated. The most susceptible to appropriation.

Do you think it would be easier to treat someone who was delusional or someone who only believed that she was?