Quotes About Cognition

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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

When we think back on our past sensations and feelings, our thought is a faithful mirror that copies its objects truly; but it does so in colours that are fainter and more washed-out than those in which our original perceptions were clothed.

?e smo prepri?ani, da ogenj greje ali da voda osvežuje, je to zgolj zato, ker bi nas misliti druga?e stalo preve? bole?ine.

All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call IMPRESSIONS and IDEAS.

Admittedly, some people experience synaesthesia, in which they do associate a particular colour or sensation with particular numbers.

A driver who has no interest in motorcycles, and isn't expecting to see one, may not comprehend a motorcycle regardless of how conspicuous it is.

The human brain has a deceptive habit of filling in missing information and ignoring new information that doesn't fit the expectation.

Research is showing that so-called multitasking is a myth. The human brain cannot perform two different tasks at the same time.

synaesthesia—the condition where two or more senses are connected, for example when numbers are seen in colour and every series of numbers forms an image in the mind.

You will act not on what your eyes and ears show you, but on what your mind thinks probable.

Too much light inhibits the activity of the brain", Carrel said. "Surely you've noticed that the world's great civilizations have formed far above the equator, where there is much less direct sunlight than in tropical regions".

He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.

Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts.

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.

Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.

Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.