Quotes About Cognition

He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd put it in almost fifty years before and hadn't had cause to remove it. But for the life of him he couldn't find it.

The woman's brain has two hemispheres," she slurred. "One for loving, one for hating. They can operate quite competently at the same time.

I FIND THAT MORE AND MORE PEOPLE FAIL TO SEE THINGS THAT ARE RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSES.

Many fail to grasp what they have seen, and cannot judge what they have learned, although they tell themselves they know.

Thinking is common to all.

Yolun gitti?i yeri unutan? hat?rla.

If our subject persuades himself to believe contrary to the evidence in order to evade , somehow, the unpleasant truth to which he has already seen that the evidence points, then and only then is he clearly a self-deceiver.

Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do.

This language, which constantly imposes images, militates against the development and expression of concepts.

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

Naše špatná pam?t, na niž si tak hodn? st?žujeme, souvisí p?edevším s nedostatkem obraznosti.

If Hilbert's view prevails over intuitionism, as appears to be the case, then I see in this a decisive defeat of the philosophical attitude of pure phenomenology, which thus proves to be insufficient for the understanding of creative science even in the area of cognition that is most primal and most readily open to evidence – mathematics.

Jak trzeba by ?y?, my?la?am, ?eby pasowa? do tego co si? akurat my?li.

How can something that is true in your heart and in your mind not be real?

The only things he cannot remember are the things he never knew. His

I have always had a bad memory, as far back as I can remember.

Raising awareness. It's a good thing. Makes people think twice.

What was the actual benefit of accuracy when it came to memories?

Whenever he was required to use his reason he felt like someone who had always used his right hand but was now required to do something with his left.

Im focused, thinkin like I got 2 brains.

But I don't trust a crowds - hundreds of people together without cognition and only the basest impulses: food, drink, sex. Fen claims that if you just let go of your brain, find another brain, the group brain, the collective brain, and that it is an exhilarating form of human connection that we have lost in our embrace of the individual except when we go to war. Which is exactly my point.

Trying to compose even a single sentence can have the same effect, as we try to juggle grammatical and syntactical alternatives plus all the possibilities of tone, nuance, and rhythm even a simple sentence offers. Composing, then, is a cognitive activity that constantly threatens to overload short-term memory.

A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand.

Twelve-year-olds are eager to turn everything into arguments but don't have the cognitive skills to win them.