Quotes About Cognition

Right thinking comes from being aware of the truth or the reality of any situation.

Cognitively, grasp of just one concept is the sound of one hand clapping.

our typical reaction to scarcity hinders our ability to think.

Just as amino acids can be called the building blocks of life, associations can be called the building blocks of thought.49 In

But it comes down to this: in deciding whether a possibility is correct, people typically look for hits rather than misses;

As the stimuli saturating our lives continue to grow more intricate and variable, we will have to depend increasingly on our shortcuts to handle them all.

rational approach.

Existe um princípio na percepção humana, o princípio do contraste, que afeta a forma como vemos a diferença entre duas coisas quando apresentadas uma após a outra. Em suma, se o segundo item for razoavelmente diferente do primeiro, é grande a probabilidade de vê-lo como mais diferente do que de fato é.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking." With

There's nothing to this telepathy business. It's all in the mind.

Cogito ergo dim sum. (Therefore I think these are pork buns.)

Political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler coined the term "backfire effect" to describe how some individuals when confronted with evidence that conflicts with their beliefs come to hold their original position even more strongly.

At the very least, one would hope that by becoming aware of the many ways our brain can trick us, we would arrive at the conclusion Bertrand Russell thought was a necessary consequence of the limits of knowledge: we should be less cocksure of our beliefs, hold them tentatively, and always be on guard against thinking our feeling of absolute certainty implies we're right.

Rationality is not a power you are born with but one you acquire through training and practice.

For us, the split between our emotions and our cognition is a source of constant internal friction, comprising a second Emotional Self within us that operates beyond our will.

Fortunately, to acquire rationality is not complicated. It simply requires knowing and working through a three-step process. First, we must become aware of what we shall call low-grade irrationality. This is a function of the continual moods and feelings that we experience in life, below the level of consciousness. When we plan or make decisions, we are not aware of how deeply these moods and feelings skew the thinking process.

To go along with this self-control, we must do whatever we can to cultivate a greater memory capacity—one of the most important skills in our technologically oriented environment.

Los científicos han demostrado que, por el contrario, es muy plástico: que nuestros pensamientos determinan nuestro paisaje mental.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

first phase is referred to as the cognitive phase. During this phase, the teacher is attempting to understand the strategy, but not using it with any utility or effectiveness.

The ability to focus attnetion on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.---Irrational Exuberance

People had a way of folding what they saw into what they knew and what they wanted to believe.

memory expanded what it did not shrink.