Quotes About Cognition

But your feelings are not always a reliable guide to reality and

The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your "cognitions," or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things—your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs.

You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment

That is what cognitive distortions are: a highly misleading way of thinking about yourself and the world.

Definitions of Cognitive Distortions

Men's minds ran to straight lines, but women thought more in terms of circles.

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

bilateral illusion of unilateral attention

Some answer or trick of the will: the ability not to think about it. What if everyone knew this trick but Claude Sylvanshine?

What's unendurable is what his own head could make of it all. What his head could report to him, looking over and ahead and reporting.

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.

Or that he's slow, Hal's brother is, technically, Stanford-Binet-wise, slow, the Brandeis C.D.C. found---but not, verifiably not, retarded or cognitively damaged or bradyphrenic, more like refracted, almost, ever so slightly epistemically bent, a pole poked into mental water and just a little off and just taking a little bit longer, in the manner of all refracted things.

greater when one's mind has been exercised and thus

most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking. That

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O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

William Shakespeare

Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts; ... Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them ...

I fell onto the bed and lay gazing at the ceiling, nearly immobilized and in a trance of supreme discomfort. Rational thought was usually absent from my mind at such times, hence trance. I can think of no more apposite word for this state of being, a condition of helpless stupor in which cognition was replaced by that "positive and active anguish." And one of the most unendurable aspects of such an interlude was the inability to sleep.

I had a feeling once about Mathematics, that I saw it all—Depth beyond depth was revealed to me—the Byss and the Abyss.

the unthinkable / is thinkable.

Logic is not a theory but a reflexion of the world.

what is the nature of the bridge between the sense perceptions and the concepts?