Quotes About Cognition

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.

People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.

Your brain has more than 100 billion cells, each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible combinations are greater than the number of molecules in the known universe.

All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're especially responsible for the one's we put there.

Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.

I've got "Sometimers." Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget.

You have to be born with enough brainpower.

Psychology is the science of mental life

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

My mind works in mysterious ways