Quotes About Cognition

Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.

The Subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what's real and what's imagined.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other.

Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

Life is not what happens to you but what you think about it.

The mind is the most powerful sense.

Distance matters only when you fail to cover it through your mind

In your life, everything revolves around your mind.

Our minds are incredibly powerful things.

What words cannot convey ... the mind can read.

I can't escape reality but my mind can twist it for me. Therefore, mind can manipulate things.

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.

The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.

Authentic humans don't show the perfect, chessmaster appreciation of consequences that von Neumann's theory demands. Instead, decision makers resort to heuristics, or mental shortcuts, to arrive at quick, intuitive choices.

The stumbling block isn't the certainty effect per se. It's the way that smart people are influenced by mere words, by the way the choices are framed.

We know poor and middle class children exhibit certain differences in styles of talking and thinking, but we do not know yet why or how these differences occur.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.