Quotes About Cognition

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.

The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

I have an excellent memory - for books and authors, that is. I remember all the books I've read.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.

The first time I read 'Leftovers,' I didn't get it at all.

As you get older, you start to read the game more, and as your brain starts working more, and as you get a good footballing brain, your legs start slowing down!

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

Smell was our first sense, and it was so successful that in time the small lump of olfactory tissue atop the nerve cord grew into a brain. Our cerebral hemispheres were originally buds from our olfactory stalks. We think because we smelled.

Then something rang a bell in his mind. What

Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.

Reality doesn't happen until you analyze the dots

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make be proud to be an American.

Why do we need to know about the human mind? Because things are designed to be used by people, and without a deep understanding of people, the designs are apt to be faulty, difficult to use, difficult to understand.

It is only at the reflective level that consciousness and the highest levels of feeling, emotions, and cognition reside. It is only here that the full impact of both thought and emotions are experienced. At the lower visceral and behavioral levels, there is only affect, but without interpretation or consciousness. Interpretation, understanding, and reasoning come from the reflective level.

We only need to remember sufficient knowledge to let us get our tasks done. Because so much knowledge is available in the environment, it is surprising how little we need to learn. This is one reason people can function well in their environment and still be unable to describe what they do.