Quotes About Cognition

As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.

It is how humans are wired to remember. They either take more credit for success or more responsibility for failure than is their due.

A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith.

Authentic faith is lived wisdom, exact cognition, direct experience.

I would know it even in madness.

Je le reconnaîtrais rien qu'au toucher, ou à son odeur, je le reconnaîtrais si j'étais aveugle, aux seuls bruits de sa respiration et de ses pas martelant le sol. Je le reconnaîtrais dans la mort, à la fin du monde.

I would know it in dark, or disguise, I told myself. I would know it even in madness.

Once we name something, you said, we can never see it the same way again. All that is unnameable falls away, gets lost, is murdered. You called this the cookie-cutter function of our minds. You said that you knew this not from shunning language but from immersion in it, on the screen, in conversation, onstage, on the page.

Professor Adam Galinsky, an American social psychologist who has studied the connection between creativity and international travel, says that 'Foreign experiences increase both cognitive flexibility and depth and integrativeness of thought, the ability to make deep connections between disparate forms.'1

It is possible, I think as I sit there on the cold wood of the bandstand bench, to see ailing marriages as brains that have undergone a stroke. Certain connections short-circuit, abilities are lost, cognition suffers, a thousand neural pathways close down forever. Some strokes are massive, seminal, unignorable; others imperceptible. I'm told it's perfectly possible to suffer one and not realize it until much later.

No hay que confundir el sentido del número con la facultad de contar. Únicamente la inteligencia humana puede alcanzar un grado de abstracción capaz de permitir el acto de contar, aunque el sentido del número está presente en muchos animales.

Her mind cleared slightly, but she still didn't seem to be quite all there.

As we get older the brain actually gets smarter.

Even when they're not stoned, adolescents live in a world of ideation of their own making and follow trains of thought to extreme conclusions, despite overwhelming evidence that they're just plain wrong

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.