Quotes About Cognition

This was the first scientific demonstration that the unconscious mind possesses knowledge that escapes the conscious mind.

As we'll see, the human mind is built to identify for each event a definite cause and can therefore have a hard time accepting the influence of unrelated or random factors.

If men uphold reason, they will be led, ultimately, to conclude that men should deal with one another as free agents, settling their disputes by an appeal to the mind, i.e., by a process of voluntary, rational persuasion. If men reject reason, they will be led, ultimately, to conclude the opposite: that men have no way to deal with one another at all—no way except physical force, wielded by an elite endowed with an allegedly superior, mystic means of cognition.

The "floater" misses reality; the concrete-bound person misses understanding.

By virtue of being able directly to discriminate one aspect of reality, a consciousness cannot discriminate some other aspect that would require a different kind of sense organs. Whatever facts the senses do register, however, are facts. And these facts are what lead a mind eventually to the rest of its knowledge.

The branch of philosophy that studies knowledge is epistemology.

What counts in evangelism is not cognition, but recognition. Can

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions

He who thinks little errs much…

Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

Learning never exhaust the mind

Nessuna cosa si può amare nè odiare, se prima no si ha cognition di quella. (No thing you can love or hate, if you don't know it before.)

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there's an unreal air to it; reading a passage from a book slowly does nothing to rob the words of their power. A film presents images; a book creates images inside the reader, with the reader's active participation. Books are good for your brain.

Es un tipo de memoria muy pobre la que solo funciona hacia atrás

This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him)

I ca'n't remember things before they happen.' 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.

Sometimes information you barely noticed consciously comes back to you of its own accord.

My memory follows rules that my conscious being cannot explain, though they may have something to do with my subconscious being.

You look down and to the left. When people are trying to remember something, they look up and to the left. When they're avoiding the truth, however, they look down and to the left. Interesting bit of trivia they teach us in detective school.

Your Misunderstanding creates your Understanding!