Quotes About Cognition

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it.

I have a great memory.

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

You can never learn anything that you did not already know

Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function.

Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing - are associated with a lower risk for dementia.

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.

Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.

I'm taking memory power boost tablets to help me every day and doing the puzzles to help me stay focused.

More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.

History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

Intellect is not speaking and logicising

Honor the words that enter and attach to your brain.

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

that was humanity's problem right there. they are brain damaged from the early sun