Quotes About Cognition

It is enough that I can understand one thing, clearly and distinctly, without another in order to be certain that one thing is distinct from the other.

Não há nada que dominemos inteiramente a nao ser os nossos pensamentos.

Science in its entirety is true and evident cognition.

hay pocas personas que consientan en decir lo que creen, sino también porque muchas lo ignoran, pues el acto del pensamiento, por el cual uno cree una cosa, es diferente de aquel otro por el cual uno conoce que la cree

Ich denke also bin ich (cogit ergo sum)

hay pocas personas que consientan en decir lo que creen, sino también porque muchas lo ignoran, pues el acto del pensamiento, por el cual uno cree una cosa, es diferente de aquel otro por el cual uno conoce que la cree, y por lo tanto muchas veces se encuentra aquél sin éste.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person," - Nero Wolfe

The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person. It is mine. I am sometimes successful.

The more you put in a brain, the more it will hold—if you have one.

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them." [ Life magazine, December 10, 1965]

to let us know what we're thinking.

Remember to remember!

MARCI SHIMOFF AUTHOR, INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER, AND TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER It's impossible to monitor every thought we have. Researchers tell us that we have about sixty thousand thoughts a day. Can you imagine how exhausted you'd feel trying to control all sixty thousand of those thoughts? Fortunately there's an easier way, and it's our feelings. Our feelings let us know what we're thinking.

The qualities of the images, sounds, and feelings are known as submodalities.

Take a note of that his Lordship says he will turn it over in what he is pleased to call his mind.

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

Alexander called this process of stopping and thinking about actions before carrying them out - INHIBITION.

is a good deal of scientific support for the hypothesis that higher levels of thinking depend on language.

There is a strong link between synesthesia and photographic memory (technically called eidetic memory) or at least heightened memory (hypermnesis). Many synesthetes used their synesthesia as a mnemonic aid.

When asked what good the trait does, synesthetes immediately answer, "It helps you remember." They do have measurably high memories

objectivity arose from subjectivity—the recognition that two minds could have different representations of the world and that the world has an existence independent of either representation. This

The cognitive orientations and skills of East Asians and people of European cultures are sufficiently different that it seems highly likely that they would complement and enrich one another in any given setting.