Quotes About Cognition

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

Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

Lo de «aprender a pensar» en realidad quiere decir ejercer cierto control sobre cómo y qué piensa uno.

intel1ectual but

Thinking is a capacity with a biological basis. It takes effort. It consumes energy—some 20% of the body's total budget goes to supporting brain activity.

I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers. Our brain does that sometimes. Or at least mine does.

You don't know, but I'm noticing.

Thoughts can follow you anywhere.

I don't think meaning is something that can be explained. You have to understand it on your own. It's like when you're starting to read...it's that leap, that understanding, that leads to meaning.

In addition to remembering things that one does not know how one remembers, one would also appear to remember things that one has no idea how one knew to begin with.

There is no such thing as forgetting," he murmured.

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call understanding is basically just fantasizing.

a detached corner of Fofão's brain said.

You sometimes feel that reading books is the only way you can think, as if the reading occupied one part of your brain and this allowed the other part to go free and become more active. You need that time to read in order to think. That's all there is to it.

For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth.

She knew because she looked.

Most people is thin-brained.

Just because I try to read a lot of stuff doesn't mean I can fully conceptualize all of these intense, big, abstract ideas.

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain.

We have to move into the 21st century, but we should do so with great care to build a 'bi-literate' brain that has the circuitry for 'deep reading' skills and, at the same time, is adept with technology.

It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.

I think I'm getting a little bit of Alzheimer's. Just a little.

I have an analytical mind.

I'm usually very analytical when I'm prepping stuff: real into the head thing.