Quotes About Cognition

Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.

The unconscious works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

There is nothing higher than reason.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Our desires seek out supporting reasons and tend to ignore facts and arguments that do not fit in with them.

1. The brain uses images to help the conscious mind understand.

Verás cuándo funciona mejor la lógica y cuándo deberías apoyarte en una estrategia emocional.

Consciousness is a dance between perception and memory.

I don't remember my dreams. I'm one of those weird people. I know there are tricks and things you can do, but I never remember my dreams.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

If only we could know what was going on in a baby's mind while observing him in action we could certainly understand everything there is to psychology.

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

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

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.

I could not think without writing.

Every response, whether it be an act directed towards the outside world or an act internalized as thought, takes the form of an adaptation or, better, of a re-adaptation.