Quotes About Cognition

Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.

Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way.

Recordando y Olvidando No te has olvidado de recordar; Te has acordado de olvidar. Pero la gente puede olvidarse de olvidar. Eso es tan importante como acordarse de recordar y, en general, más práctico.

Muéstrale a un hombre demasiados huesos de camello, o muéstraselos demasiado a menudo, y no será capaz de reconocer a un camello cuando se cruce con uno vivo.

Ciertos niveles de comprensión humana no pueden ser logrados, se afirma, hasta que el cerebro pueda trabajar en más de una forma.

Consciousness is part of our nature as sentient beings, but doesn't mean we are aware at a particular moment. By perceiving our consciousness - becoming conscious of consciousness, we become aware.

The common factor in all our experiences is wakeful consciousness which turns what happens into an experience or a meaningful reality.

It had only recently been discovered that dolphins could recognize themselves in a mirror, the only other animal besides a chimp to have such self-awareness.

Even Time kneels before the mightiness of Perception.

One can never truly know a person's every thought and action and so a person can never truly be known.

One's mind is their greatest asset.

Our greatest weapon is the mind.

Padlocked we are in the limits of our minds.

To think is wondrous, but to constantly repeat such, is dangerous.

Meditation also appears to slow age-related degeneration in our brains. Neurologist Eileen Luders at UCLA looked at the link between age and the volume of the brain's white matter, which typically shrinks with age. She reported that this decrease was less prominent in meditators as compared to non-meditators. On average, the brains of long-term practitioners appeared to be seven and a half years younger at the age of fifty than the brains of non-meditators.

As for cognitive empathy there is, it appears, no shortage of people in the world who can unwittingly offend, misunderstand and steamroller over the delicate signals of others, all while maintaining the self-perception that they are unsurpassedly sensitive to subtle social cues.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

A review in the Journal of the American Medical Association of thirty-six studies that looked at the physical growth, cognition, language and motor skills, behavior, attention, affect, and neurophysiology found no connection between prenatal exposure to cocaine and a decrease in functioning.

Good readers are flexible in their thinking and use different strategies for different types of reading.

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

The other reason why the mind has been regarded with a certain amount

The brain builds a version of the universe and projects this version of the universe like a bubble all around us. So I can say with some certainty, 'I think therefore I am.' But I cannot say, 'You think therefore you are,' because you are within my perceptual bubble.

Every aspect of our lives plays out in two versions: one conscious, which we are constantly aware of, and the other unconscious, which remains hidden from us.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.