Quotes About Cognition

You Believe what you see, You Perceive what you do.

Listening is two part, attention and thinking. The latter is what a lot of us don't do

We are only enslaved in our mind.

Your brain is not only the material inside your cranium, its something to be explored, developed and refined

That our feelings affect the ways we think about the world is the take-home message of this chapter. Our emotions influence our thinking, which is reflected in the ways we use function words.

As Browning writes, "If ordinary Serbs, Croats, Hutus, Turks, Cambodians and Chinese can be the perpetrators of mass murder and genocide, implemented with terrible cruelty, then we do indeed need to look at those universal aspects of human nature that transcend the cognition and culture of ordinary Germans.

a man becomes swift in his mind when he needs to work with his head.

How we can make a Judgement if we don't see what Happen.

I know the fifth chapter

As educational psychologist Jane M. Healy puts it, "Brains shape behavior, and behavior shapes brains.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced.

She interpreted this to mean that white subjects were struggling with the "awkwardness" or "exhaustion" of dealing with a black man, and that this interfered with their ability to take the mental test.

They say you don't directly remember things you see. Instead, you remember a memory of a memory of a memory of a… The

Bezos only makes decisions in the first half of the day. If any important decision comes to him after noon, he won't make it, he'll say he's waiting until the next day. Because he knows he is cognitively there in the morning, in the best possible way. The mornings are for decisions, the afternoons are not.

One of my favorite CEOs reminds me often that "memories are convenient." What he means is we more readily remember events that prove we're right.

We do tend to believe things while we're hearing or reading them. Afterwards, it's another matter, when the book is closed and the voice stops speaking.

Your feelings result entirely from how you're thinking right now. It is your thoughts, and not the circumstances of your life, that create all your feelings. You feel the way you think.

It's a kind of jail, the brain's mind. We've got these mysterious three-pound brains and they jail us.

We have to be wary of our brains. They make our decisions before we make them. They lead us to still waters. They renounceth free will. And it gets weirder: If you slice a brain down the middle, the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere will operate self-sufficiently and not know what the other is doing.

Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

Thinking and consciousness are not synonymous. Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought.

The word itself—dyslexia—is ironically very hard for dyslexic people to spell correctly

La supervivencia del hombre depende de la perfección de los sentidos menos de lo que pudiera creerse. Su capacidad de raciocinio le ha liberado de numerosos esfuerzos y obligaciones, por lo que muchas de sus facultades se han aniquilado.