Quotes About Cognition

Spend just a few nights sleeping for seven hours or less and your brain goes into slow motion. To make matters worse, you will continue to feel fine and so don't make allowances for your sluggish mind. Within just a couple of days this level of sleep deprivation transforms you into an accident waiting to happen.

Our brains are belief engines, not truth engines.

Such is human memory... you forget the truth and believe what makes you feel better.

The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By resisting it, you actually reinforce it.

Don't we all live in our heads? Where else could we possibly exist? Our brains are the universe.

The story is smarter than I am.

Wherever you go, the most of life will have to happen in your mind.

suspect that we do not know any more than the people of the past did, but only think somewhat differently.

Some researchers have suggested that at around this time, typical 18- to 20-month-olds can learn as many as nine new words a day. Imagine that—63 new words a week!

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My thinking, far from being clearer than a crystal, was tortuous. I would read the same passage over and over again only to realize that I had no memory at all for what I had just read. Each book or poem I picked up was the same way. Incomprehensible. Nothing made sense.

Language, on the other hand, newer to the brain, may be more linked to those parts that regulate dopamine and thereby connected to pleasure.

We were always just too young to understand properly the latest piece of information. But of course we'd take it in at some level, so that before long all this stuff was there in our heads without us ever having examined it properly.

You notice and absorb so much.

There is no freedom from the prison of the mind.

There is no escape from the prison of the mind.

I started rubbing my temples and she suggested I don't really get headaches. It just hurts me to think.

The fact that someone was capable of learning to read and write did not, unfortunately, make him intelligent.

I can see the…seams where they're put together. And, almost, see the apparatus inside them take the words I just said and try to fit the words in here and there, this place and that, and when they find the words don't have any place ready-made where they'll fit, the machinery disposes of the words like they weren't even spoken.

I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind....

It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen

dozen multiple intelligences—cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, moral intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, logico-mathematical intelligence, spiritual intelligence, aesthetic intelligence, and so on.

I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.