Quotes About Cognition

Saber: qué verbo amargo.

Within my roasting brain cells, the scaps of thought refused to cohere.

I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.

But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

When you track, you're creating causal connections in your mind, because you didn't actually see what the animal did. That's the essence of physics.

Simple and brief interactions with nature can produce marked increases in cognitive control," they explain in a paper for Psychological Science called "The Cognitive Benefits of Interacting with Nature.

even though our brains account for only 2 percent of our body weight, they demand 20 percent of our energy,

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

Human beings pay very little attention to what is told them unless they know something about it already.

Our thoughts are free.

The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

Brain-based thinking applied to Thing management can be tremendously empowering, as you begin to ask yourself specifically what's easy, difficult, or impossible for your particular mound of gray and white matter to do, and to take this into account in developing strategies. Thinking this way allows you to break out of circular patterns you may have repeated for years with your Things and begin to make genuine progress.

that our memories are forever evolving, so we only remember the version of the memory we last recalled rather than the original event.

and before tomorrow was coming to an end, he knew his mind would already be working in much the same way, yet again, over the day that was to follow.

cannot recognize attitudes and beliefs

Se não tivesse sido eu, eu não saberia, e tendo sido eu, eu soube.

La libertad en sí -como acto de percepción- no tiene forma. Y como el verdadero pensamiento se piensa a sí mismo, esa especie de pensamiento alcanza su objeto en el propio acto del pensar.

People confuse thinking with knowing, they let themselves confuse the two.

The Western conception of the person as a bounded, unique, more or less integrated motivational and cognitive universe, a dynamic center of awareness, emotion, judgment, and action organized into a distinctive whole and set contrastively both against other such wholes and against its social and natural background is, however incorrigible it may seem to us, a rather peculiar idea within the context of the world's cultures.

The state of mind is by far the most superior of all.

The extension of human thinking is not only felt in dreaming when you are asleep. You can express it further by interpreting it in the outside world.

Finally you get to the age when a book's power to make you think becomes the first thing you notice about it.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!