Quotes About Cognition

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact

Emotional function and cognitive function aren't unrelated to each other. They're completely intertwined.

What we're seeking to do is internalize perception. Perception is very much involved with the senses and the mental processes and the emotional processes.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Experience precedes understanding.

Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them

The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.

Experience by itself is not science.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience.

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.

During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.

To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.