Quotes About Cognition

The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious.

If you're rational you don't get to believe whatever you want to believe.

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.

You have to think before you can feel. You have to conceive before you can perceive.

We think when there is a stimulation to create thoughts in our minds.

For one must label a thought with language for one can understand the meaning of the thinking mind.

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

...you'd be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.

Neither right nor wrong. It is all manipulation of thoughts.

The more you learn, the more you will be able to see, feel, love, enjoy, and understand.

When someone is delusional, he or she can do anything to justify his or her beliefs.

The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

My mind is like the Titanic, to many brain cells for the life boats.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.

A person hears only what they understand.

Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world.

Thought is action in rehearsal.

You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.