Quotes About Cognition

For someone who can't remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can't forget.

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.

Here are three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

You always remember what you forget to forget, you forget what you forget to remember and you remember what you do not forget to remember to remember.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

A person is not ready to know if he knows that you know it.

Ask for advice, and then use your brain.

Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.

You always have more brain cells than you're currently using.

Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know." -Irene Pepperburg

Dolphins have one of the highest ratios of brain size to body mass in the animal kingdom. Measured in this way, a dolphin's brain is second in size only to that of a human's, and well above that of our closest genetic relative, the chimpanzee. A large brain-to-body size ratio is often considered a hallmark of intelligence, although it's not the only factor. But it is something we humans celebrate in ourselves and regard as key to the flowering of human intelligence.

had also hoped to visit scientists investigating cats' mental talents, but unfortunately very few researchers have looked into the feline mind.

Clearly animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know." Irene Pepperberg

Scientists at the University of Georgia recently discovered that rats are self-aware and capable of something like introspection—complex

We were wrong about why these animals behave as they do, in part, I think, because most of us do not grant animals even the simplest form of thought, or recognize that they do things intentionally.

Clearly, animals know more than we think and think a great deal more than we know.

Logic is the science not of external forms of thought, but of the laws of development "of all material, natural and spiritual things", i.e., of the development of the entire concrete content of the world and of its cognition, i.e., the sum-total, the conclusion of the History of knowledge of the world.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

intelligence is evaluated by: doing... applying... acting... observing... understanding...thinking... using...etc.?

Thought applies to an idea expressed or unexpressed that comes into your mind as a result of reflection, and reflection takes time.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.