Quotes About Cognition

It is the heart and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain.

The power of thought is the magic of the mind.

but there is every reason to think that the bulging cortex which would later measure stars and ice ages was still a dim, impoverished region in a skull box whose capacity was no greater than that of great apes.

what we remember depends upon what we believe—the human mind is not an objective recorder of information . . ." ~ MJ Brogan, Sins Not Forgotten

People live in the six inches of real estate between their ears—in that three pounds of fat and protein that is the human brain. They live inside their heads. That's where reality resides. That's where every single human constructs an individual narrative of their life. That's where they tell themselves who they are, and what they can and can't be. And no person's reality can ever be the same as anyone else's.

the human mind is not an objective recorder of information . . .

Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think

My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.

And I must say, there was both freedom and challenge for me in recognizing that our perception of the external world, and our relationship to it, is a product of our neurological circuitry. For all those years of my life, I really had been a figment of my own imagination!

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

I love watching him think, Maeve told Lily. You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel.

The capacity of humanity to deny what is right in front of it is staggering.

A wonderful place, the mind, but if it has any kind of disappointing failure, it's that it always attempts to put new things into the context of things which are already familiar to it.

None of my issues have included memory loss or unconscious actions, she said. Thomas squinted back at her. If they had, how would you know it? Molly frowned. Valid point.

You don't exactly sleep, in situations like that. You close your eyes and stop moving, and then a lot of complicated things happen in your brain.

Was it even a Cutlass? He could tell trucks from cars and sedans from compacts, but beyond that he was guessing.

The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

We all remember what we need to remember.

Memory fades, memory adjusts , memory conforms to what we think we remember.

In fact I did not need to look, nor could I avoid them by not looking: I knew them by heart.

I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

It is hard to remember what we came to remember.

Lie to yourself until it's true.

Lie to yourself until it's true.