Quotes About Cognition

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

You are your brain and your brain is you.

Your brain processes a thought while your mind creates and cultivates not only your thoughts, but also the knowledge and experiences you gain.

?The universe perceives itself through us, or to be more specific, through our neurons.

Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.

[Cinema]… obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.

What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

The principle to be kept in mind is to know what we see rather than to see what we know.

The most incomprehensible fact is that we comprehend at all.

The human mind is one-sided. It can never grasp all of reality at once. When we look at things we see either the features which they have in common or the features that distinguish each of them.

demonstrates quite clearly Swift's maxim that you cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.

A paranoid man is a man who knows a little about what's going on.

Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.

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Your thoughts do not create reality. They either recognize reality or they do not.

We often do not see what we do not expect to see.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

When something becomes hard to think about, people transfer the discomfort of the thought, to the object of their thinking.

neuro-linguistic programming

Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us...

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Memories Distort Observation

Your flesh receives information about the external world through your five sense organs (gyan indriyas): eye, ear, nose, tongue and skin. Your flesh engages with the external material world through your five action organs (karma indriyas): hands, feet, face, anus and genitals. Between the stimulus and the response, a whole series of processes take place in your mind (manas).