Quotes About Cognition

the frontal cortex makes you do the harder thing when it's the right thing to do

Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.

Your brain can be your most powerful asset. But if not used properly, it can be your most powerful liability.

One of the quotes credited to Ford goes: Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.

A person may be highly educated mentally

Ford goes: "Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.

Perhaps memory is not merely the preservation of a moment in the mind, but the process of repeatedly returning to it, carefully breaking it up in parts and assembling them again until we can make sense of what we remember.

We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's left is our memory of the memory.

We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain, is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's left is our memory of the memory. You follow me?

Almanzo couldn't understand how Father knew that he wasn't looking at the preacher, if Father was looking at the preacher himself. But Father always did know.

An English speaker who has never studied French already knows around 15,000 French words!

I was forcing him to think. He wasn't used to having to do anything that complex.

A quick mind is worthless unless you can control the emotions with it as well.

Mr Mudd, you see but you do not observe.

fiction works because a part of the mind forgets that it's fiction while we're reading it.

If you think of yourself as a sleeping city for example… what? You can sit quiet and hear the processes going on, going about their business; volition, desire, will, cognition, passion, conation.

The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

Ohne Phosphor, Kein Gedanke. Without phosphorus there would be no thoughts.

Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.