Quotes About Cognition

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust.

The little grey cells, my friend, the little grey cells! They told me.

We all have the little grey cells. And so few of us know how to use them.

Faces are tricky unless you can connect up when and where you'd seen them.

But afterwards you went on remembering.

It is the brain, the little grey cells" — he topped his forehead — "on which one must rely. The senses mislead.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam. "Even if it's something they don't know they know.

He was tired because he had been thinking. Thinking was always exhausting.

It is always easier, Madame, to tell a thing to someone who already has a very good idea of what it is.

It is to show you that it is the eyes of the mind with which one really sees….

The true work, it is done from within. The little grey cells—remember always the little grey cells, mon ami." -- Hercule Poirot

Ah! Have I got to tell you thirty-six times, and then again thirty-six, that there is no need of physical effort? One needs only-to think.

I saw," said Poirot. "With the eyes of the mind one can see more than with the eyes of the body. One leans back and closes the eyes—

Never, never will the grey cells function unless you stimulate them.

Until the last minute I keep everything here," he tapped his forehead.

The hardest part of anything in life is thinking about it.

A perception that exists in the mind is often interpreted as a universal truth.

The mind, as a defense against the volume of today's communications, screens and rejects much of the information offered it. In general, the mind accepts only that which matches prior knowledge or experience.

If you were forced to drink a beaker of di-hydrogen oxide, your response would probably be negative. If you asked for a glass of water, you might enjoy it. That's right. There's no difference on the palate. The difference, in the brain.

We do not want to count; we want to think the count.

In fact, it's not until about the age of four or five that it even occurs to children that deception is possible. There's no point in lying if everybody knows what you're thinking!