Quotes About Cognition

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

And even before my brain, lingering in consideration of when things had happened and of what they had looked like, had sufficient impressions to enable it to identify the room, it, my body, would recall from each room in succession what the bed was like, where the doors were, how daylight came in at the windows, whether there was a passage outside, what I had had in my mind when I went to sleep, and had found there when I awoke.

Knowing a thing does not always mean preventing a thing, but at least the things we know, we hold, if not in our hands, at least in our minds where we can arrange them as we like, which gives us the illusion of a sort of power over them.

Human brains are bullshit.

The part of Cardenia's brain in charge of gestalting slammed everything together and shoved it into her consciousness.

That's aging's trump card; they still can't replace brains.

It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row

An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'.

It was not that her brain was less efficient than theirs, within its limits it was more so; but it was like the keyboard of an adding machine as opposed to that of typewriters.

Awareness is not the same as thinking. It is a complementary form of intelligence, a way of knowing that is at least as wonderful and as powerful, if not more so, than thinking.

Thought doesn't wrap around awareness. Awareness wraps around thought.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.

Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are individuals in their own right.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

I fear if I cannot think again, if my mind suddenly goes blank. It will be embarrassing.

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

The limits of your mind define the boundaries of your world.

I can remember something that happened three years ago but not five minutes ago.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.