Quotes About Cognition

Intelligence did not figure largely in anything he did and was often conspicuously absent.

The one woman knew but did not understand; the other, it seemed, understood without knowing.

It's hard to evaluate the validity of a belief you're scarcely aware of—you just accept it as is.

As you can hear, it's difficult to learn another language after forty.

It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64)

Thinking is the ultimate human resource.

The specific difference between sf and other estranging genres, such as fantasy, is that sf's displacements must be logically consistent and methodical; in fact, they must be scientific to the extent that they imitate, reinforce and illuminate the process of scientific cognition.

I'll let you in on a little secret, Garry: everything is history. By the time you notice it, it's already happened. That famous imposter, the present, disappears in the cognitive gap. Mind the gap!

The human mind is generative, creative, proactive, and reflective -- not just reactive.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views which they take of them

Now I sense the perfume of flowers like seeing a new thing. I know they smell just as well as I know I existed. They're things known from the outside. But now I know with my breathing from the back of my head.

You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.

it is not enough that we know how things really stand; in a certain sense, things themselves have to realize how they stand.

The range of what we see and do Is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice That we fail to notice, There is little we can do To change Until we notice How failing to notice Shapes our thoughts and deeds. R. D. Laing With

What good was a truth that could be perceived only through delusion?

Man — a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!