Quotes About Cognition

Sherlock Holmes pointed out that one might see, yet not observe. That's a basic cause of much human failure.

It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.

Your safety gears are between your ears.

Consciousness is always there rather we are aware of it or not

Consciousness is not a state of matter, but a matter of awareness

Experience is the direct perception before belief, before thoughts

Explanation of experience pulls us out of experience and into thought

Reality cannot be experienced with the intellect, because the intellect can only think thoughts about reality

We may think about what we experience, but we will experience what we think about

You can be aware without being awake, but you cannot be awake without being aware

very often the main problem we face in making a good decision is not the lack of information but our limited capability to process that information

Having formed a hypothesis that something is true about the world, we are more apt to note and file away evidence that helps to confirm that while passing over the evidence around us that would suggest otherwise.

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

I referred to the innate human need for what psychologist Arie Kruglanski was the first to label "cognitive closure," which he defined as "the individual's need for a firm answer to a question and aversion to ambiguity."[ 3]

You cannot possibly remember anything you do not observe; and it is extremely difficult to observe or remember anything that you do not want to remember, or that you are not interested in remembering.

you would like to remember names and faces, there are three steps involved; the first step takes care of the name, the second takes care of the face, and the third locks the two of them together. What you have to do is associate the name to the face in some ridiculous way.

Ordinarily, there'd be no way to picture a name like Bentavagnia (pronounced bent-a-vane-ya). But you can picture, say, a bent weather vane. And bent vane has to remind you of Bentavagnia! The Substitute Word system will work beautifully to help you remember names. Applying it will force you to listen to, pay attention to, concentrate on that name—to be Originally Aware of

You Can Remember Any New Piece of Information if It Is Associated to Something You Already Know or Remember.

In Order to Remember Any New Piece of Information, It Must Be Associated to Something You Already Know or Remember in Some Ridiculous Way.

Even if step three didn't work (which it does), just applying steps one and two must improve your memory for names and faces, because you've done what most people don't do—you've paid attention; you've listened and looked.

Actually, you can't think without seeing pictures. Aristotle said it, centuries ago—one of his books opened with this sentence: "It is impossible even to think without a mental picture.

What you've learned in the preceding chapter is a tiny part of the Link system of memory. We call it the "Link" system because what you're doing when you apply it is linking one item to another, forming the links of a memory chain. One item must lead you to the next, if you're associating properly.