Quotes About Cognition

Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.

Physically, man is a dwarf; mentally, man is a giant!

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.

...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.

And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.

But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that Mom and Dad can't. Or won't.

If brains were money, you'd need to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee.

On a biological level, the brain registers money as something valuable - even a dollar bill which has no intrinsic value, it's just paper.

If you had half an hour of exercise this morning, you're in the right frame of mind to sit still and focus on this paragraph, and your brain is far more equipped to remember it.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena.

Freedom and slavery are mental states.

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Be very, very careful what you put into that head of yours, because you will never, ever get it out.

What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.

Some guys need to see things on a grease board, ... I like when you can see it in your mind. And that's what Marvin does, too. He visualizes. He sees things in his mind so well.

Awareness is that which is reading these words right now, whatever "that" is. You know without a doubt that there is something reading these words right now and awareness is precisely what that is.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.