Quotes About Cognition

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.

What men have seen they know. . . .

There are three types of intelligence. The intelligence of man, the intelligence of animals and the intelligence of the military. In that order.

Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.

Think with the big head, man! Think with the big head!