Quotes About Cognition

I can speak at length and use my brain. It's nice to be able to show that side of me.

I'm sure our brains are working unconsciously. When you have a creative thought, it's parts of the brain talking to each other without your awareness.

It's like I have three different brains.

Just as our bodies need to be exercised, so, perhaps, do our brains.

Reading is a bridge to thought.

I don't think there is such a thing as an idea without words, because your language is your thought.

It was a gradual process, realising I was different. I remember at primary school getting a worksheet with sums printed on it. I thought that they must have run out of the right colour inks and sizes for the numbers, because they were all the same, which isn't how I experienced numbers at all. To me, nine is big and blue.

I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing.

Kendisine söylenen bir ÅŸeyi, daima her ÅŸey olarak görüyor ve bunun kar??s?nda keza mevcut öbür ÅŸeyleri unutuveriyordu

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. -

?ovek je ono što misli tokom ?itavog dana

Assumptions are what the brain is best at. Some days, I suspect that makes us despair.

In fact, seeing what is actually there with our conscious mind is really hard to do, and most people never learn how to do it! The brain is actively hiding the real world from us.

how we think we know what we think we know.

Cuando uno de estos patrones se fragmenta, decimos que la persona está «perdiendo la cabeza».

The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.

All of us have photographic memories, but spend a lifetime learning how to block off the things that are really in there.

Did you ever read that story about the man who traveled to the future and found everyone there insane? Everyone. But since they were all insane they didn't know they were all insane. They all acted alike and so they thought themselves normal. And since our hero was the only sane one among them, he was abnormal; therefore, he was the insane one. To them, at least. Yes, Mr. Douglas, insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

It was a look, almost, of pale surprise; the dark eyes were so fixed to the world that no move escaped them.

Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don't watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you're doing and it's the first time, really.

I learned long ago that I am not seeing directly, that my subconscious is doing most of the "sponging" and it will be years before any usable impressions surface.

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

agent was lying flushed and insensible; the other, bent over his books, was making correct entries of perfectly correct transactions;