Quotes About Cognition

love has a most unfortunate effect on the brain

love has a very dulling effect on the brain

But you can't stop knowing something, can you?

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

What we know instinctively," she continued, "is simply what we are trying to remember. Knowledge is memory.

because looking is just the start of understanding, just its surface, the top layer of any understanding, the girl is saying

Books. Knowledge. Years of reading. All of which means? I know stuff.

One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.

I'll show that babies, like scientists, use statistics and experiments to learn about the world.

Our brains are designed to arrive at an accurate picture of the world, and to use that accurate picture to act on the world effectively, at least overall and in the long run. The same computational and neurological capacities that let us make discoveries about physics or biology also let us make discoveries about love.

I was a hoarder, a collector of facts that I stored in my brain for later use, not knowing what this use might be.

O homem pode enganar -se, deixar -se iludir, sem que, por isso, seja louco.

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

They tried to make you forget - to tell you you were seeing things, misremembering things. But you have always known.

One can only see what one observes, one observes only things which are already in the mind.

Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

The sensus divinitatis is a belief-producing faculty (or power, or mechanism) that under the right conditions produces belief that isn't evidentially based on other beliefs.

If we can't think about God, then we can't think about him; and therefore can't make statements about him, including statements to the effect that we can't think about him. The statement that we can't think about God-the statement that God is such that we can't think about him- is obviously a statement about God; if we can't think about God, then we can't say about him what we can't think about him.

How could there be truths totally independent of minds or persons?... How could the things that are in fact true or false—propositions, let's say—exist in serene and majestic independence of persons and their means of apprehension? How could there be propositions no one has ever so much as grasped or thought of?

To recount the essential features of the model: the internal instigation of the Holy Spirit working in concord with God's teaching in Scripture is a cognitive process or belief-producing mechanism that produces in us the beliefs constituting faith, as well as a host of other beliefs.

God has ...created us with cognitive faculties designed to enable us to achieve true beliefs with respect to a wide variety of propositions - propositions about our immediate environment, about our own interior lives, about the thoughts and experiences of other persons, about our universe at large, about right and wrong, about the whole realm of abstracta - numbers, properties, propositions - ... and about himself.

It's hard to say what philosophy is. Somebody, and I forget who, defined it as just thinking exceptionally hard.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

the eye does not see, what the mind does not know.