Quotes About Cognition

There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge.

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

In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions.

Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.

Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.

Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

All our knowledge originates in opinion.

Knowledge is structured in consciousness

In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished in epistemology.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.