Quotes About Cognition

Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.

I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.

Do u sometimes feel dumb or duffer are inadequate words to describe some people?How about DUMFER?

English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.

Men have two outstanding features--their brains and their genitalia. Unfortunately, both rarely function simultaneously.

There is no feature as attractive as a well exercised intellect.

Generally I try to avoid discussing consciousness, since it's, like, hard.

I can't seem to recall if I've ever had amnesia before.

God, how I hate the fact that I know this stuff. It only proves that it is possible to learn by osmosis.

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

All that you can imagine you already know.

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dreams.

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ of imagination.

The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.