Quotes About Cognition

Nothing in our minds is ever really gone.

I am just as far away from Alice with an I.Q. of 185 as I was when I had an I.Q. of 70. And this time we both know it.

The more intelligent you become the more problems you'll have, Charlie. Your intellectual growth is going to outstrip your emotional growth.

It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don't remember it.

It is impossible to tell what proportion is memory and what exists here and now--so that a strange compound is formed of memory and reality; past and present; response to stimuli stored in my brain centers, an response to stimuli in this room. It's as if all the things I've learned have fused into a crystal universe spinning before me so that I can see all the facets of it reflected in gorgeous bursts of light...

It is impossible to tell what proportion is memory and what exists here and now--so that a strange compound is formed of memory and reality; past and present; response to stimuli stored in my brain centers, an response to stimuli in this room. It's as if all the things I've learned have fused into a crystal universe spinning before me so that I can see al the facets of it reflected in gorgeous bursts of light...

What's right? Ironic that all my intelligence doesn't help me solve a problem like this.

Please... please... dont let me forget how to reed and rite...

Boy if I get smart wont he be serprised.

Cuanto más inteligente te vuelvas, más problemas tendrás, Charlie.

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Quanto mais inteligente você se tornar, mais problemas você terá, Charlie. Seu crescimento intelectual vai ultrapassar seu crescimento emocional.

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.

The frontal cortex doesn't even fully develop until age 25, which is wild!

But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.

As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.

Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.

The brain forgets much, but the lower back remembers everything.

Ths visions of the mind have a debt to reality that it is hard to get the mind to pay when it is under the influence of its visions.

What is experienced from within cannot be categorized in concepts that have been developed for the external world of the senses.

In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.

I can't say that I woke this morning; the fitter expression would be, that I recovered my senses.

human intelligence is by definition what humans naturally do...

We typically have a bias that tells us we are less susceptible to bias than everyone else.