Quotes About Cognition

The soul never thinks without a picture.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.

Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

Whatever happens to us originates in the mind.

A person knows when they're in darkness, even when they can't see. -Nightblood

Propositions are true or false. Images are not.

The only human disease is amnesia.

I believe the brain is like a muscle - like any other it can be improved.

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

Intellect has powerful muscles, but no personality.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

If something does not exist, then it makes it very difficult to give it a definition.

Hakikatku adalah yang aku pikirkan, bukan apa yang aku rasakan

It's not gay if you didn't know it was a boy.

Never mistake education for intellect.

The essential in the being of a man of my type lies precisely in what he thinks and how he thinks, not in what he does or suffers.

you do feel like a noble, superhuman, holier-than-thou person, you are then, according to REBT, experiencing an unhealthy positive feeling.

Zettle notes, we misuse many nouns in psychology instead of verbs and thereby create semifictional entities that Kevin Everett FitzMaurice (1997) calls "thought things." Thus we say, "My feelings upset me when panic overwhelms me when I am in closed spaces" instead of, "I upset myself by panicking when I am in closed spaces.

You don't immediately understand something like that, even when it's explained to you clearly. You don't understand it, because you don't know how to understand it. You lack that space in your mind that would let you take it in. You are incapable of believing in the possibility of what they are telling you, because nothing of the sort has ever happened to you before.

When we see a rose, we immediately say, rose. We do not say, I see a roundish mass of delicately shaded reds and pinks. We immediately pass from the actual experience to the concept.

Knowledge is always a function of being.

Reason is not the same in all men; human beings belong to a variety of psychological types separated one from another by irreducible differences.

We are unable to see the mind, and find it difficult in consequence to understand its nature.